Turó de la Rovira

Probably sunset-watching, eating outside and running, busiest in the hour before the sun goes and quiet at first light when runners have it.

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Picnics the flat slabs behind the old command post, back from the edge

People carry a bag up from the shops in the streets below and eat sitting on the flat slabs behind the old command post, out of the wind, then move to the edge when the light starts to go.

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bread and cold things from the small supermarkets on carrer de Marià Labèrnia, the last shops before the climb

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Running the earth track that comes up from the Parc del Guinardó side to the platforms

Runners come up the earth track from the park side at first light, touch the top and turn straight back down. At that hour the platforms are empty and the sea is the bright part of the view.

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Watching the sunset the two concrete gun platforms on the seaward edge, and the broken house walls just below them

An hour before the sun goes the two flat platforms facing the sea are already taken. People who arrive later sit on the low broken walls of the old houses a few metres downhill: the same view, and less wind.

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Nearby in El Carmel

Carrer de Marià Labèrnia
Carrer de Gran Vista
Parc del Guinardó
Carretera del Carmel