After Saturday night's festivities at "El Correfoc (Part 1)" we were wondering what would be in store for us on Sunday. The newspaper had a listing for a "Piromusical" at a large square at the base of the National Palace around Montjuic Fountain. The site was ready made for public displays with the Palace standing on a tall hill with stairs, plazas, and fountains cascading down the hillside.
The Montjuic Fountain was at the base of the hill, itself very large and ornate flanked on both sides with huge squares. Following the line down from the Palace was a very wide street four or five blocks long which opened on another very large fountain and square. All of this was blocked off from traffic during the festivities. (The street was Reina Maria Cristina).

We arrived at the shoot site in the afternoon by accident. We had gone up to Montjuic from the back side off the harbor to see the museums in the park. I wanted to scout out the site during daylight so we walked towards the Palace and as we were enjoying the view of the city from up on top, I noticed the fountain and suggested we walk down to it via the many flights of stairs and escalators.
As we approached the last level above the square at the base, I was delighted to see the mortars, rocket racks, mines, and wiring for the nights events. The racks were all very well used and consisted of both cardboard and steel mortars.
While I had to observe from outside the fence, it looked like they varied in size from 2 to 6 inches. None were set in barrels of sand, the operators had sand bagged them very heavily. The square must have been 50 by 75 meters and was virtually covered with pieces. Wire was running everywhere but there were no operators to be seen. We asked a guard where everyone was and, as we should have figured, they were at lunch. (Lunch in Spain is a very big deal, no one misses it and it can last from 2 to 4 hours.)
As it was just getting to 2 p.m. we figured that it could be hours before the operators returned so we headed down into town for our own lunch and to rest up prior to the evenings activities.

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