Parc del Carles I

Av Icària, 121

Located in the vertex of the Parc de la Ciutadella, the Parc de Carles I makes up part of a long linear park area created to open Barcelona up to the sea for the Olympic Games in 1992.

Parc de Carles I became a sort of Olympic Village gateway, towards which it is aligned.  Particularly notable are its lines of tall cypresses and plane trees and a long water channel. It is part of the large, coastal park created to open the city up to the sea for the Olympic Games in 1992.

History

Parc de Carles I is one of the “coastal parks”, which also include the Port Olímpic, Nova Icària, Poblenou and Cascades parks. Five large green spaces that were built on Poblenou’s old industrial land at the start of the 1990s, as part of the coastal facade’s redvelopment for the 1992 Olympic Games.

Art and Architecture

The sculpture, a bronze work six and a half metres high by Eduardo Úrculo called  El Cul (The Bottom), was dedicated to Santiago Roldán, the chair of the Olympic Holding company from 1989 to 1993. Set near the park’s Himalayan cedars, it consists of long, chubby legs supporting two perfectly round buttocks.

  • Phone number
    Tel.: 010
  • Titularity
    Public center
Address:
Av Icària, 121
Districte:
Sant Martí
Neighborhood:
la Vila Olímpica del Poblenou
City:
Barcelona

Timetable

Observations
Hora de tancament
aproximada, en funció de
l'horari solar (tanquen
quan es fa fosc, al capvespre)

Accessos: Av Icària /Francesc Aranda/ Moscou /Marina /Doctor Trueta