Bateries antiaèries i barraques del Carmel

Bateries antiaèries i barraques del Carmel occupies the summit of Turó de la Rovira, 262 metres above Barcelona. Its surviving structures combine wartime defences with traces of twentieth-century housing. Seven battery bases remain across the hill, alongside tiled floors from later huts.

Built in late 1937 during the Spanish Civil War, the Republican installation defended Barcelona against air raids. Four Vickers guns covered distances between 4,000 and 13,000 metres. After the war, around 100 makeshift huts housed about 600 people seeking work or a better life. The settlement lasted for decades before its final residents moved to apartments in nearby Can Baró during the 1990s.

Since 2011, the site has served as a memorial and open-air museum managed by Barcelona History Museum. Three large panels present photographs, maps and text about both histories. From the summit, a 360-degree panorama shows Barcelona across the horizon. The popular name bunkers del Carmel misidentifies these remains, which belonged to a defensive battery rather than a shelter.