Category Archives: Barcelona

133 Speaking of tending to the wild – the Botanical Garden of Barcelona is a place to get lost. Not in the sense that it’s extensive or has a confusing structure, but because it has been planted to replicate how these ecosystems might have looked, had they evolved with much less management and care thanContinue reading “Barcelona (iii)”

110 Visiting new cities can be a tiring exercise. Maybe that’s a contributing factor to why I fell into the habit of visiting botanic gardens. Except for maybe Kew in London and Jadin des Plantes in Paris, my general experience is that botanic gardens are places in otherwise busy cities where you can get aContinue reading “Barcelona (ii)”

49 The Botanical Garden of Barcelona might be the most unique botanic garden I’ve ever been to. Among the stadiums from the Summer Olympic Games of 1992 on Montjuïc hill, the botanic garden takes up 14 hectares of hilly terrain. It was established in 1999 and is dedicated to cultivating and displaying plants and ecosystemsContinue reading “Barcelona (i)”