| It is the city's oldest and only remaining | | | | views across Barcelona and out to sea. The large |
| entertainment park. Built in 1899, it offers more | | | | land site offers numerous other often traditional |
| 30 different and breathless rides. The most | | | | and unusual rides for both adults and kids, including |
| democratic is La Atalaya (the watchtower), with | | | | a mono-railway, water ride, simulated airplane |
| its fantastic views. A couple of the unusual | | | | flight and a heavyweight Ferris wheel. |
| 19th-century attractive features still exist, like the | | | | This entertainment park combines tradition with |
| Museo de Automatas (automatic Museum). Next | | | | modernity the rides from the first of the century |
| to it stands the modernist-style Church of the | | | | compete with cutting-edge novelties such as the |
| Sacred eye. | | | | hair-raising flying lizard Khan. In summer, the place |
| It is the oldest entertainment park of Barcelona | | | | takes on a average suchlike atmosphere. The |
| and fills a surface area of seventy,000 1000s with | | | | peak of the mountain has equaled a democratic |
| around thirty rides. The Automaton Museum, the | | | | retreat for Barcelonese since 1868 when a road |
| pioneer of the Park, stays from the former | | | | was built connecting it to the city. Doctor. Andreu |
| installation. There's a collection of thirty-five | | | | a wealthy pill manufacturer, believing the clean |
| fantastic automatic tools. There is also the | | | | mountain air to be beneficial for the health, |
| renewed Aeromagic, designed in 1935, and the | | | | created the Sociedad AnĂ³nima de Tibidabo, |
| airplane, which dates from 1928. | | | | which advanced the slopes as a public garden and |
| Alongside these older attractions, the Park as well | | | | was instrumental in establishing both the blue tram |
| as the most modern rides, such as the Tibidabo | | | | and funicular through which one accomplishes |
| express mail and the Viking. Adjacent to the park | | | | there. Some of the attractive features in the |
| is the Sagrat Cor (Sacred Heart) Christian church, | | | | park date back to his time. L'Avio is a old-time |
| a modernist temple of neogothic inspiration begun | | | | replica of the first aeroplane that served the |
| in 1902 along Enric Sagnier and which carried sixty | | | | Barcelona-Madrid route. In the Tibidabo version |
| years to complete. Josep Miret Llopart was | | | | one are treated to a whisk off over the summit |
| answerable for the monumental sculpt of the | | | | in a toy-like adaptation delayed from a central |
| Sacred Heart on top of the Christian church. | | | | axis. There's also a fascinating museum of period |
| The known conventional Spanish entertainment | | | | automatons. There are great deal of other rides |
| park on the Tibidado Mountain overlooking | | | | and attractive features designed to scare one out |
| Barcelona has been entertaining and holding people | | | | of his/her mental capacity, but many are |
| for over 100 years. It's the greatest point of the | | | | increased by the elevated location of the park |
| urban center and meet the area of impressive | | | | itself. |