Montjuïc is located just to the north of the old quarter of the city, near the confluence of the Onyar, Galligants, and Ter rivers.

[7] On July 14, 1492, the Jewish community gave the 400-year-old cemetery to the nobleman Joan de Sarriera, in gratitude for many favors he had done for them.

[2] In ensuing years, the gravestones of the cemetery, often large, shaped slabs of rock bearing a Hebrew inscription, were taken and used in construction projects around Girona.

An additional outlying defensive tower was built in 1812, named after its builder the French Marshal Louis-Gabriel Suchet.

In 1843, during the Catalan popular revolt "Jamància", Montjuïc Castle and the Suchet tower were destroyed by artillery on the orders General Juan Prim.

In the 1930s the City Council of Girona planned the first urbanization of the mountain, with a school and a city-garden for the working class.

Although the mountain was declared a green zone in 1955, the Girona city council could not obtain the transfer of land from the castle, which was military property.

[15] Between 1967 and 1971 the squatters were pushed out to other neighborhoods of Girona, and a suburb was built for middle- to upper-class residents on Montjuïc.