Font Màgica de Montjuïc

• Shows run set evenings only, Wednesday to Sunday through the summer season and fewer nights the rest of the year, so check the date first.
• A late start for small kids, the summer show runs 9.30pm to 10.30pm and shifts earlier as the nights draw in.
• No tickets and no seating plan, so you pick a spot on the steps or the balustrade and leave whenever you need to.

The Font Màgica sits at the foot of Avinguda Maria Cristina below the Palau Nacional, built by Carles Buïgas for the 1929 International Exposition. Around 2,600 liters a second move through its three concentric pools, lit in color and choreographed to music: film scores, Spanish classical, rock, 1980s pop. The terraces and steps above the water fill up early.