The best city hikes and walks around Parc de la Serralada de Marina

Good place for a family walk or a bike ride.

Another symbol of the city. The Anis del Mono factory is just a few meters away.

It's one of Badalona's symbols, but access can sometimes be closed. It's well worth a visit.

Beach located between the Riera Matamoros and the Riera de Canyadó

The statue is near the sea, almost on the beach

The Molinet bridge that we know today is a wide winding road over the Besòs river, which connects the neighborhood of Bon Pastor with the neighboring town of Santa Coloma de Gramenet. The name comes from an old mill that was on the Gramene side of the river. Curiously, until January 1945 the course of the Besòs did not separate Barcelona from Santa Coloma. Powerful downpours in the 15th century diverted the riverbed, but the geographical limits of the old municipal terms of Sant Martí de Provençals, Sant Andreu de Palomar and Santa Coloma de Gramenet were not altered. This last town came to have territory on both sides of the river, just like Sant Adrià de Besòs today. On the western bank of the Besòs, which currently belongs to Barcelona, the fields of Torrassa, Estadella and Barri Vermell were not developed until 1918 and the Cheap Houses were not built until ten years later. At the end of 1944, the Barcelona City Council acquired the lands of Santa Coloma that remained in its possession for one million pesetas, a payment that also included the right to extract aggregates from the river bed. This has been the last annexation of land that Barcelona has experienced since the time of the aggregation of the old municipalities of the plan. The residents of the Bon Pastor neighborhood communicated with Sant Andreu through Carrer Sant Adrià. To do it with Santa Coloma, everything was more complicated since the town councils disagreed on the issue of building a bridge. The only passage was actually a footbridge over the river built of planks and timbers in a most archaic and simple manner. A man was periodically responsible for putting in and taking out the planks. Most of the users tipped him every time they stopped by. But on rainy days, when the Besòs was too full, this solution of the planks was not possible and without the footbridge in service it was necessary to walk a few kilometers to the Santa Coloma bridge to cross the river. The Molinet footbridge also allowed all the workers who, on one side of the river or the other, went daily to work in the numerous factories and industries in the area. This situation lasted well into the 1970s. The current Molinet bridge was not inaugurated until 1978.

Park with river access. There is a very well marked and wide bike path.

In 2001 the intention to dismantle the jetty was announced, but a group of divers, photographers and other friends of the Oil Bridge, led by Josep Valls, mobilized to defend the conservation of this structure. In 2003 it became the property of the Badalona City Council and after different stages of restoration, it was opened to the public on June 13, 2009, enabled as a promenade that leads out to sea as a viewpoint. Three years later it was integrated with the rest of the promenade. At the entrance platform of the bridge, very close to the Anís del Mono factory, a sculpture by Susana Ruiz dedicated to the history of the factory was inaugurated.