Park Güell will start next Thursday June 27th its summer cultural program, organized in collaboration with the Museu d’Història de Barcelona (MUHBA). This 2024 Program will include concerts, film series and guided tours for 2 euros to learn different secrets of the park.
From June 27, and for four consecutive Thursdays, the Plaça de la Natura will host the concerts of the cycle ‘Music, Radio, Barcelona’. The Program recovers the works of Anselm Clavé, on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of his birth, and the Catalan choral tradition.
It will also pay tribute to the Orchestra, jazz and chamber songs that played on the radio in the first decades of the 20th century. This will mark the centenary of the first radio broadcasts in the city.
The concerts scheduled as part of this series are as follows:
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- Josep Anselm Clavé and his time: Renaixença, associationism and republic, with Canendi Elegantia (June 27, 8:30 p.m.)
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- we come from Clavé, with the Orchestra de Cambra de Granollers (July 4, 8:30 pm)
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- Barcelona, capital of Jazz, with the Barcelona Jazz Revival (July 11, 8:30 p.m.)
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- Classics on the radio, with Ars Movens (July 18, 8:30 p.m.)
Tickets to the concerts are free and can be reserved on the MUHBA website.
Summer cinema at Park Güell
This year’s film series will be dedicated to Ventura Pons. In the Plaça de la Natura, the documentary Ocaña, retrato intermitente will be screened, coinciding with LGTBIQ+ Pride Day, as well as the films El porqué de las cosas and Barcelona (un mapa), which reflect the filmmaker’s vision of the city.
The Program sessions will be as follows:
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- Ocaña, intermittent portrait (June 28, 9:30 p.m.)
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- The Why of Things (July 5, 9:30 p.m.)
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- Barcelona (one map)(July 12, 9:30 p.m.)
Tickets for the film series are free and can be reserved on the MUHBA website.
Historical guided tours of the Park Güell
The summer cultural Program will be completed with itineraries and historical tours to learn about the history of Park Güell, the work of Antoni Gaudí and his relationship with the city, and the evolution of the surrounding neighborhoods.
These guided tours will cost €2 and will last approximately one to three hours and reservations will also be available through the website of the MUHBA.
The themes of the visits will be the following:
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- Park Güell and water: from bare mountain to city garden (June 2, at 10:00 a.m.)
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- The attraction of the mountain: literary itinerary through Park Güell (June 28, at 7:00 p.m. and September 21, at 11:00 a.m.)
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- Park Güell and Barcelona (June 16 and September 1, at 10:00 a.m.)
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- Barcelona’s first viewpoint: the growth of the city seen from the Tres Turons (June 22 and September 7, at 6:00 pm)
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- Gracia 1900: the bourgeois showcase of a working-class neighborhood (July 7, at 10:00 a.m.)
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- Gaudí in Park Güell: architect, urban planner and landscape designer (July 11, at 6:00 p.m.)
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- Gardening in Park Güell (September 15, at 10:00 a.m.)
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- Architecture and nature in Park Güell (September 28, at 10:00 a.m.)