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The graffiti in the dungeons can now be watched on the Castle's website

Montjuïc Castle begins its Summer timetable on March 1st with the following opening hours: from Monday to Sunday from 10 a.m. until 8 p.m. This timetable will be valid until November 1st.

Montjuïc Castle is going to hold an open day to celebrate the Mercè Festival on 24th September. Entrance to the castle premises will be free of charge all day. The guided tour will be available to discover spaces that are usually closed to the public: the dungeons, the watchtower and the cistern (price of the guided tour: € 5)

Next Thursday, March 15th, the dungeons of the Castle are going to be opened to the public again. The restoration carried out at the site has revealed hundreds of graffiti made by the prisoners who have stayed at the dungeons over the years. Calendars, drawings, proclamations and all kinds of writings have come to light and will be on show when visiting this area. The dungeons can only be accessed with a guided tour, available at 11am from Monday to Sunday and also at 4pm on weekends and holidays at a price of €5 (price of the guided tour, entry not included).

On February 27, the Castle received the visit of the media, guided by the Memory Program Commissioner, the Director of History, Memory and Heritage and two archaeologists. The media visited the new reception area of the castle and discovered the graffiti from the dungeons. During the visit was announced that the dungeons will be opened to the public only with guided tours, starting from March 15th.

To celebrate Santa Eulàlia’s Day, patroness of Barcelona, the Castle will be holding an open day. The entrance to the site will be free of charge all day. People attending the Castle will be able to visit the Visitor Center of Montjuïc, the temporary exhibition "Nazis and fascists, the symbolic occupation of the city 1939-1945" "and the artistic intervention" WELCOME "by Ciprian Homorodean.

Montjuïc Castle will hold an open days to celebrate the Mercè Festival in 23th, 24th & 25th September. Entrance to the castle premises will be free of charge all day.

The temporary exhibition "Battle of Montjuïc. Defending the city from the Castle" is going to open on Thursday 15 June at room 19 of the parade ground. Battle of Montjuïc was the combat that took place on 26 January 1641 in Montjuïc mountain in Barcelona seven months after the popular uprising known as the “Corpus de Sang” (Corpus of Blood, 7 June 1640). The exhibition is mainly narrated by the artwork that artist Pere Ginard has specialy created for the occasion. Twelve large-format images which recreate events, characters and scenes using a very personal technique, which combines engraving, photography or drawing to configure a whole from a very original point of view. The illustrations are accompanied by short informative texts written by the historian Dani Cortijo and that, through chapters, report the events, from the arrival of the Castilian troops to the victory of the Catalan hosts.

The “Nits al Castell” (“Nights at the Castle”) series returns on Friday nights to the parade ground for the third year. For three nights in June, the Castle will be transformed into a place where you may enjoy artistic performances, taste the culinary delights of the travelling food caravans and enjoy nighttime views of the city from the Castle terrace Access to the activities and to the rest of the premises will be free of charge starting at 8 pm. Starting at 10 pm, the Castle will provide a free shuttle bus service to Plaça d’Espanya.