Barcelona Tour Highlights
In need of a place to transmit the radio and TV broadcasts from the Olympic Games to a global audience, the organisers turned to famed British architect Sir Norman Foster.
With the help of civil engineers Julio Martínez Calzón and Manuel Julià Vilardell the tower was built by the construction company Cubiertas y MZOV S.A and although only laying the first stone in 1990, it was completed on time for the Games.
Seen from almost every corner of Barcelona, the Collserola Tower is officially the highest point you can go in the city. Hence the top antenna is 288.4 m above seas-level.
The tower is supported by huge guy cables, like the mast of a yacht. Moreover the central ‘pod’ has thirteen floors and particularly for us visitors the tenth, is open to the public. Just not all the time.
In 1993 FM radio begins broadcasting from the tower and it wins the FAD Architecture Award and FAD Opinion Award.
In 1997 the tower began the first experimental tests broadcasting digital radio and television and in 2010 Digital terrestrial television (DDT) is implemented and Analog TV is switched off. The end of an era.
Collserola Park
Tibidabo FunPark
Collserola Tower
Temple of the Sacred Heart
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