Barcelona - Castell de Montjuïc

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in the rooms surrounding the courtyard and in the casemates.

From the gateway, where the ticket office is located, the visitor turns left and views the exhibition in a clockwise direction. The library (Rooms 3 and 4) can be visited by prior arrangement. From there we go downstairs into the casemates (Rooms 1-7; photography is forbidden here). In the smaller room on the left and in the neighboring rooms can be seen displays of blank weapons, firearms, models of battleships and fighting planes, a large model of Montjuïc, as well as models of other Spanish castles, landscape dioramas of historic battlegrounds. On the wall there is a large map showing the individual comarques (districts) and important castles of Catalonia, and a collection of tin soldiers. In the large room (at the bottom of the stairs on the right) there are medieval and more recent weapons (crossbows, flails, armour, blank weapons and firearms).

The tour then returns to the courtyard; here are the auditorium (Room 6) and newly furnished rooms (Room 7 onwards). These contain more historical weapons, extensive collections of modern firearms (handguns from various sources, automatic weapons) and uniforms of various military units. Non-military material is to be found in Room 18, where items connected with the history of the mountain and finds from the old Jewish cemetery can be seen.

From the inner courtyard visitors can go up to the large roof terrace, from which there are splendid views.