The quarries of the Turó de la Rovira hill

One of the distinguishing features of the Can Baró neighbourhood is its quarries, which were worked on intensely for almost the entire 20th century. So many years of exploitation caused huge holes in the Turó de la Rovira hill, one of which – located at the end of Carrer Mühlberg – cut off the path between the two sides of the neighbourhood. The Pont de Mühlberg bridge closed this gap in 1991 and has been providing spectacular views of the city ever since.

Before the dinosaurs

Rovira hill (261 metres in height) is one of the seven hills at the foot of Collserola along its seafacing mountain range, in other words, Barcelona. It is part of Tres Turons (Three Hills) group, along with Turó del Coll (249 m) and that of El Carmel (267 m), which make up the Coastal Range system created over 250 million years ago, during the Palaeozoic era, before the appearance of the first dinosaurs.