‘Temporarily closed’. This is the ad at the top of the ticket sales page to the viewpoint of the Torre de Collserola. There is no more information, apart from the prices (between 5.60 and 2.80 euros), which at this point are intuited out of date. Nothing about its reopening, although from BSM (Barcelona Serveis Municipals) they assure that “the most suitable moment to reopen to the public next season is being assessed with the tower managers& rdquor ;. The managers are none other than the Sociedad Torre de Collserola, to whom the city council granted the concession for the use of the land located in the Turó de la Vilana, where the mega-antenna is built, for a period of 50 years. The telecommunications complex entered service in 1992.
So, at this point in the calendar, the one that It happens to be the highest watchtower over the city: 560 meters above sea level with 70 kilometers of sighting, de Montserrat al Cadí covering the entire metropolitan area, It is, if not the only one, one of the few city attractions that have not reopened since the blind was lowered due to the pandemic. The viewpoint occupies the tenth floor of the 12 that the construction adds. A fully glazed surface that defies vertigo even for those who do not suffer from it and that allows a 360 degree view. It is accessed by an elevator that is also labeled panoramic and does not accommodate many people per visit. It is almost an intimate act, in fact, it can be, since the viewpoint is rented (or was rented until further notice) to individuals.
The Urquinaona and Glòries towers
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The presence of a viewpoint was one of the conditions that the town hall to authorize the project, which had the objective of having a large infrastructure that would bring together the services of telecommunications and cover the needs in this area during the Olympic Games of 1992. In 1988, a restricted international competition was held, which was won by the British architect Norman Foster, not without controversy: Santiago Calatrava, who was also competing for design, hinted that the choice had not been entirely objective. The truth is that the tower that the British raised is an engineering prodigy built with concrete, glass and steel.
Be that as it may, the ceiling of Barcelona – by height 288 meters, the second will be the Sagrada Família with 172.5; and due to its location on the sea – it has been inaccessible for more than two and a half years, but this does not mean that the city does not have vantage points from which to observe. They are there the viewpoint of the Urquinaona Tower and that of Torre Glòries –both buildings with recognized authors: Antonio Bonet Castellana and Jean Nouvel, respectively-; in addition to the bell towers or rooftops of many churches such as the cathedral, Santa Maria del Pi, Santa Maria del Mar and Sants Just i Pastor.