{"id":29558,"date":"2019-05-08T08:00:26","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T06:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barcelonacolours.wordpress.com\/?p=2246"},"modified":"2020-03-22T19:08:51","modified_gmt":"2020-03-22T17:08:51","slug":"a-walk-on-pony-at-la-foixarda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barcelonacolours.com\/en\/a-walk-on-pony-at-la-foixarda\/","title":{"rendered":"A pony ride at La Foixarda Barcelona"},"content":{"rendered":"

When we were thinking about\u00a0an extracurricular activity for her, it was clear: learn how to ride a pony<\/strong>. We were looking at different options and finally we\u00a0chose the riding school La Foixarda.<\/p>\n

RIDING A PONY IN BARCELONA<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n

For those of you who are thinking about enrolling\u00a0your children to a similar extracurricular activity, I\u00a0will explain:\u00a0RIDING PONY IN BARCELONA<\/strong>The riding school La Foixarda is located very close to the MNAC\u00a0and it\u00a0can be reached by using the mechanical stairs\u00a0of Plaza Espanya\u00a0or you can park in the area (there is often free parking space). At the end of the post I have put a map with\u00a0directions.<\/p>\n

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Roughly, the riding has many good and one bad thing.
\nThe good part: the atmosphere and the prices. It is a very normal and healthy ambient, \u00a0full of kids and people who like horse riding.<\/p>\n

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Teachers are part of this\u00a0great ambient. The different\u00a0pony teachers Sofia had\u00a0were\u00a0lovely and they transmit their vocation for the world of horses. And the prices are public\u00a0and affordable (around 60 euros per month for pony riding).<\/p>\n

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The bad part\u00a0with La Foixarda, in my opinion, is that the facilities are somewhat neglected. A pity because it is a spectacular site.<\/p>\n

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THE RESTAURANT LA FOIXARDA<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

The restaurant is another of the good things: they offer \u00a0a delicious\u00a0argentinian barbecue<\/strong>! From Monday to Friday there is a menu of grilled food for 9.50 euros.
\nMany Saturdays we have come to La Foixarda exclusively to eat in the restaurant (hey, on weekends usually it is full, so the\u00a0best is to reserve. At the end of the post I have put the phone).<\/p>\n

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(Picture taken from the restaurant’s web La Foixarda)
\nFurthermore, the restaurant overlooks the center court. While the adults eat, children are entertained with the “show” \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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The age to ride a pony is 4-7 years old. In La Foixarda from 7 years old they directly start riding a horse.
\nFor those who want to enroll your children to\u00a0horse or pony riding as an extracurricular<\/strong> class, call and ask for the\u00a0schedules, because the web\u00a0is under construction.<\/p>\n

During summer they organize riding camps\u00a0for children<\/strong>, they are part of the Olympia Campus. We enrolled\u00a0Sofia for 15 days and she was very happy: they combine riding classes in the morning with swimming classes in the afternoon in the nearby pools\u00a0Picornell.<\/p>\n

In the riding school of La Foixarda they have experience in Hippotherapy<\/strong>\u00a0for children, which is therapy for children with physical and \/ or mental disabilities.
\nAnd if what you want is to try only one\u00a0session of pony riding you can also do it.<\/p>\n

RIDING SCHOOL\u00a0LA FOIXARDA<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Av Montanyans,\u00a01 –\u00a008038 Barcelona<\/p>\n

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RESTAURANT LA FOIXARDA<\/strong> –\u00a0Argentinian Barbecue
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When we were thinking about\u00a0an extracurricular activity for her, it was clear: learn how to ride a pony. We were looking at different options and finally we\u00a0chose the riding school La Foixarda. RIDING A PONY IN BARCELONA For those of you who are thinking about enrolling\u00a0your children to a similar extracurricular activity, I\u00a0will explain:\u00a0RIDING PONY […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1385,"featured_media":42729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5538,5546,5557,5553,5554,5539,5576],"tags":[5712,6590,5716,5717,6854,6855,6856,5718,6857,5720,5721,5722,5713,5714,5715,5719],"class_list":["post-29558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-barcelona","category-map","category-other-outdoors","category-outdoors","category-parks","category-sants-montjuic-other","category-zoo-farm-animals","tag-argentine-barbecue-barcelona","tag-barcelona-en","tag-equestrian-foixarda","tag-hippotherapy-for-children-in-barcelona","tag-horse-riding-barcelona-en","tag-horse-riding-for-kids-en","tag-horse-riding-for-the-disabled-en","tag-pony-barcelona","tag-pony-riding-for-kids-en","tag-restaurant-foixarda","tag-restaurant-for-children","tag-restaurant-with-terrace","tag-barcelona-equestrian-infant-classes","tag-barcelona-horse-riding","tag-barcelona-school-children","tag-pony-riding-for-kids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/barcelonacolours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/barcelonacolours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/barcelonacolours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barcelonacolours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1385"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barcelonacolours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29558"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/barcelonacolours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42732,"href":"https:\/\/barcelonacolours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29558\/revisions\/42732"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barcelonacolours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/barcelonacolours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barcelonacolours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barcelonacolours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}