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This park has spectacular views of Barcelona. For those who have wanted to walk, is full of trails that allow walking the southern side of the mountain of Montjuïc.

Vocation landscape of this park translates into a more forest than garden. The sun plays are full, the light is intense and the roads, making zigzag climb, up and down the slope of the land, uniting the lookout balconies that let you enjoy magnificent views of Barcelona.

This park is a great place to go for walks and to spend a day off, because it has a large picnic under the shade of pine trees and a bar where you can enjoy a exceptional sunsets.

For those who want to walk

The Mirador del Migdia Park is located at one end of a series of parks and gardens that following the Montjuïc mountain between Zona Franca district, the Marina Port and the neighborhood of Poble Sec. So, if we go in this direction, none Poble sections, next to Mirador Park du Midi is the first we find the Botanical Garden of Barcelona. Follow the new part of the Tres Pins Nursery, Gardens Cinto Verdaguer and Joan Brossa Gardens, the Mirador de l'Alcalde Gardens just above. A good outing in any case, I would suggest doing it just the opposite: the Mirador de l'Alcalde beginning and ending with a nice picnic in the park Mirador del Migdia.

vegetation

The vegetation is composed mainly native species, and in those areas that have been allowed acclimatized tree species Central. Thus, the Mirador del Migdia Park is rich in pines (Pinus halepensis) and stone pines (Pinus pinea), oak (Quercus ilex) and cypress (Cupressus sempervirens). Park the viewpoint of the South there are olive trees (Olea europaea), acacia (Robinia pseudoacacia) and eucalyptus (Eucalyptus globulus), ash (Fraxinus excelsior), poplars (Populus nigra 'Italica'), rosewood (Tipuana types) and Judas trees (Cercis siliquastrum).

Montjuic is a land of prickly pear (Opuntia ficus-indica) and broom (Spartium junceum) and the Mirador del Migdia Park is a good example in many parts of the park grow luxuriant oleanders (Nerium oleander) great lovers of the sun. As for the palm trees, there are few; especially emphasizes the row of Canary Island date palms (Phoenix canariensis) skirting the viewpoint of the South, long and impressive views of Barcelona.

history

The Parque Mirador del Midi occupies one of the last remaining sectors urbanized in the late twentieth century on the southern slope of the mountain of Montjuïc. It was planned at the same time projected the Olympic Ring of Barcelona Games 92, located in the mountains.

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