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Poble Espanyol de Montjuic is a model village on a hill suburb of Barcelona city, but it is distinct to every other village that you could ever likely to meet. The village lies to the south of the town at an altitude of 192 metres and looks straight down at Barcelona city centre.
Poble Espanyol de Montjuic has been purpose built for Barcelona’s 1929 International Exhibition and represents what has been perceived as being the archetypal Spanish town. The village takes its inspiration from the whole of Spain and has a ground area of just less than 50,000 square metres and has 117 different buildings.
The objective of Poble Espanyol de Montjuic was to show the characteristics and aesthetics of different construction styles from the country’s geographic regions and architectural origin. No less than 1,600 separate cities and villages had been visited and photographed during research for the village’s design and all of the many different construction designs are blended together in what was intended to be a seamless mix of Spanish heritage. Poble Espanyol is an amazing and wonderful place that you should visit once.
To make things even more interesting (and impressive), the complete model town is built on a scale of 1 to 1, with each construction, avenue and plaza being full size. In other terms you can walk around and, in various cases, into the buildings as if it were a authentic living village.
Originally the Poble Espanyol de Montjuic has been only intended to exist till the end of the exhibition, but because of its success and status as “the blue print” of a perfect Spanish town, it remains to this day. You can go there by Bus Touristique Barcelone
The plan was undertaken by a number of architects including the “modernist” Puig i Cadafalch, Ramon Reventos as well as Francesc Folguera.
The town sees a lovely main plaza or alameda and numerous buildings taken from fifteen of Spain’s autonomous communities including, Andalusia, Asturias, Castilla i Leon, Galicia, Madrid, Murcia and the Balearic Islands. Nearly everyone agree that this artificial village is a sight worth seeing and the only occasion you will ever get to see so many varying style and designs into 1 location.
Within Poble Espanyol de Montjuic you will find places, bars, gift stores, activities and displays.

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