Julio Muñoz Ramonet Gardens – Romanticism in Sant Gervasi.
In the heart of Sant Gervasi, at 282 Muntaner Street, lies a green treasure of the city of Barcelona: the gardens of the Fundación Julio Muñoz Ramonet. Originally designed in 1916 by the French landscape architect Jean-Claude Nicolas Forestier, who introduced the concept of the “Mediterranean Garden,” these gardens blend Renaissance elegance with the harmony of nature.
The estate was acquired and developed by Fernando Fabra y Puig, the 2nd Marquis of Alella, an industrial engineer, businessman, and politician who served as mayor of Barcelona between 1922 and 1923.
In 1945, the estate passed into the hands of the businessman Julio Muñoz Ramonet, owner of several textile companies and the department stores “El Siglo” and “El Águila.” Between 1956 and 1957, he commissioned a renovation by the landscape designer Joan Mirambell i Ferran. Mirambell reshaped the garden using different levels to bring the landscape closer to the house, reoriented the pond and pergola, and renewed the vegetation, replacing the flower beds with a lateral swimming pool.
After Muñoz Ramonet’s death in 1991, the estate was eventually recognized as municipal property and opened to the public in 2016 after a careful restoration process that restored the gardens to their original splendor.
The lower garden is dominated by a pond featuring the sculpture “Seated Woman” (1919) by Josep Dunyach and a wisteria-covered pergola. The staircase leading up to the house is flanked by the sculptures “Allegory of Spring” and “Allegory of Summer” (1945) by Josep Cañas.
The upper garden, located between the main house and the tower, contains another pond filled with water lilies and framed by pergolas supporting sculptures by Josep Dunyach and Vicenç Navarro. In front of the tower, the sculptural group “Confidences on the Beach” (1934), also by Dunyach, completes this delicate balance between art and nature.
Among the most remarkable plant species are Freeman maple, laurel, clivia, avocado tree, linden, dwarf palm, Montpellier maple, wisteria, acanthus, Japanese cherry tree, magnolia, hackberry, Judas tree, and latania palm—creating an exceptional botanical journey that invites contemplation and learning.
With Magic Dreams Barcelona, discovering these gardens becomes a unique sensory and emotional experience. We offer a native guide service specialized in emotional botany, ornithology, and lepidopterology, guiding visitors through an educational and immersive journey explaining plant species, their symbolism, and their relationship with the Mediterranean landscape.
Our team ensures comfort and exclusivity in every detail: private transport, selected accommodation, personalized picnics with elegant table settings and gourmet catering, photography sessions, artistic activities, and live music. We also organize gastronomic experiences, workshops in botany, ornithology, and lepidopterology, themed routes through Barcelona, the Costa Brava, and the Catalan Pyrenees, as well as tailor-made floristry services.
Each walk becomes a true sensory journey where nature, art, and history are experienced in a memorable way.
Poetic closing
Among the whispers of leaves and birdsong,
the Julio Muñoz Ramonet Gardens awaken the gaze.
Each flower holds a story,
each path invites you to dream.
The sun caresses petals,
the wind dances through branches,
and here, in this green refuge,
peace finds its home.
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