Sunday, June 22, 2014

Whew!

One of the main reasons I chose this trip is to see the Modernista architecture of Barcelona and Antoni Gaudi.  Today was the day and I was not disappointed.  We toured La Sagrada Familia, a church that has been under construction for over a hundred years and has many more years to go, then Park Guell, which he conceived of as a high end housing development, but it never took off, and is now a city park.  Then several of us visited the Block of Discord, nicknamed that by locals because several architects build building on the same block and tried to outdo each other.

Then there was a once a year parade that went right past our hotel, lasted about an hour.  Neat!  I have to be up early and ready to leave for Madrid first thing in the morning, so I'm going to cut this short and go pack.  Enjoy the pics.

No comments:

Post a Comment