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circling the hills.A bar-restaurant (with an outdoor terrace) provides snacks and
meals, and sells bottles of water for hikers and cyclists.
If you’re here at the weekend, before you head off you might as well have a
quick look inside the
Museu-Casa Verdaguer
(Sat, Sun & hols 10am–2pm;
free;
T
932 047 805), housed in theVilla Joana, which sits just below the infor-
mation centre. JacintVerdaguer i Santaló (1845–1902), the Catalan Renaissance
poet and priest, lived here briefly before his death, and the house has been
preserved as an example of well-to-do nineteenth-century Catalan life. Extracts
from his poetry enliven the climb up from the FGC station to the information
centre and house.
Well-marked
paths
radiate from the information centre into the hills and
valleys. Some – like the oak-forest walk – soon gain height for marvellous
views over the tree canopy, while others descend through the valley bottoms
to springs and shaded picnic areas.The walk touted as the most diverse is that
to the
Font de la Buderalla
, a landscaped spring deep in the woods, beneath
the Torre de Collserola. It’s about an hour if you circle back to the informa-
tion centre from here, but a good idea is to follow the signs for the Torre de
Collserola andVallvidrera once you reach the
font
(a further 20min).That way,
you can return to Barcelona instead via the funicular from the village of
Vallvidrera, or even take in the views from the Collserola tower or Tibidabo
before going back.
THE NORTHERN SUBURBS
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Parc de Collserola