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This park, done in two phases, provides two distinct concepts regarding uses and landscape. The first to be built and is the largest forest plays a rural landscape with Mediterranean vegetation. The terrain is quite inclined and arranged by the tour very wide gravel paths, occasionally connected by stairways that also allow access to areas belvedere located at higher elevations.
On one of the stone walls that make a big balcony gushing stream of water, iron gutters driven by a 28 m long, goes to a small pond that poured down the mountain to a waterfall. Nearby, a wide flight of stairs leads to the lower area of ​​the park, which was built in a second phase.
The urban garden
Very spacious and well distributed, hence the park Mirador del Poble Sec becomes an urban garden that makes the transition between forest landscape Montjuic and Poble Sec. There are petanque courts and playgrounds, rest areas and are protected by the shade of trees and a pergola covered with vines. At one end, a pond full of aquatic vegetation collects water that cascade down the terraced 18 m high, which has its origin in the small pond that is uphill.
A park between parks
The Parque Mirador del Poble Sec is located between different parks this side of the mountain of Montjuic. Just where the park begins from the side of the passage of the bullet are ush one end of Spring Park and the area of ​​the park that goes parallel to the passage of Josep Carner to stop the Gardens of Costa i Llobera .
vegetation
In this park are among other species of trees, jacarandas (Jacaranda mimosifolia), hackberry (Celtis australis) berlandieriana Fraxinus, oak (Quercus ilex), acacia (Robinia pseudoacacia), elm (Ulmus pumila), pagoda trees (japonica Sòfora ), cypress (Cupressus sempervirens), pines (Pinus halepensis), stone pines (Pinus pinea), Black Pepper trees (Schinus molle) and many Judas trees (Cercis siliquastrum), which has been a bushy. A large seating area are highlights Sapindales (Koelreuteria paniculata) and pergola covered by wisteria (Wisteria sinensis) and Virginia creeper (Parthenocissus tricuspidata).
history
From the late nineteenth century until the mid-twentieth century, Montjuic was a place of recreation for locals, who climbed the small mountain home to barbecues or cool the multiple sources. With the exception of military castle, the territory was private, divided into three large farms engaged in hunting or farming. It was as a result of planning the occasion of the International Exposition of 1929 the City Council began to buy land in Montjuïc, and Jean-Claude Nicolas Forestier was called by landscaping the mountain.
Although Montjuïc saw a second boost developer following the 1992 Olympics, which was determined to stay naked landscaping wide areas around noon, some parts of the mountains, especially those who were close to the city through the port and the neighborhood of Poble sections still remained occupied by shanties, orchards spontaneous workshops and precarious buildings of all kinds. The creation of the Park Mirador du Midi, between 1995 and 1997, represented the organization of most of these lands.

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