Barcelona Tour Highlights

Collserola
Tower

Google Visitor Rating
4.4/5
Designed by the architect Sir Norman Foster, the tower was completed in 1991 in time for the ’92 Olympic Games.
 
Moreover TV pictures during the games were beamed all around the world from this now emblematic spike.
 
The top antenna reaches 288.4 m (946 ft) above the Mediterranean Sea below. Unquestionably the views are spectacular.

Collserola
Tower

Google Visitor Rating
4.4/5
Designed by the architect Sir Norman Foster, the tower was completed in 1991 in time for the ’92 Olympic Games.
 
Moreover TV pictures during the games were beamed all around the world from this now emblematic spike.
 
The top antenna reaches 288.4 m (946 ft) above the Mediterranean Sea below. Unquestionably the views are spectacular.

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Transmitting the Olympic Message

Collserola Tower Origins

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.

Emblematic

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.

Leading the way

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.

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