Spain

We stayed in a neighborhood called La Barceloneta which sticks out into the Mediterranean on a tiny peninsula and is adjacent to the harbor. These are from around the area:

Looking down the street where we stayed (Sant Miquel)spain3.jpgBarcelona likes putting statues of people on top of buildingsspain5.jpgspain6.jpgspain7.jpg

We really like Gaudi so a massive majority of the pictures we took are of Gaudi-designed locales. They are just SO neat!!!

La Sagrada Familia was begun in 1882 and has an estimated completion date of 20-ish years from now. It is awesome in a very literal sense, enough so that we plan to return in a couple decades see the power that comes with its finality.

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Park Güell was originally designed to be a utopian community as was the fad at the time. The project ran out of money and was bought up by the city and now it’s a park.

This is the pinnacle of Montjuic with it’s castle and carnival-type accoutrements, as seen from the top of Muntanya PeladaOld cactus at the side entrance of the parkspainparc3.jpgspainparc4.jpgjust walking around the parkspainparc6.jpgThis guy was there when we arrived and when we left hours later. I don’t know how he didn’t get heat stroke with all that velvet.spainparc8.jpgspainparc9.jpgspainparc10.jpgspainparc11.jpgspainparc12.jpgThat strip of white and blue on top is the outside of the big bench and underneath is a nice shady columned area.spainparc14.jpgspainparc15.jpgspainparc16.jpgspainparc17.jpgspainparc18.jpgspainparc19.jpgspainparc20.jpgspainparc21.jpgspainparc22.jpgspainparc23.jpgspainparc24.jpgspainparc25.jpgspainparc26.jpgThis would hurt bare feet like crazy. Looks cool, though.spainparc28.jpgLooking out the window of the upstairs gift shopspainparc30.jpgspainparc31.jpgspainparc32.jpgspainparc33.jpgHot and tired after lunchspainparc47.jpgspainparc44.jpgspainparc45.jpgspainparc48.jpgLemon or lime? They don’t know the difference.spainparc51.jpgspainparc49.jpgspainparc50.jpgEnforced siestaspainparc361.jpgspainparc371.jpgspainparc38.jpgspainparc39.jpgspainparc40.jpgspainparc41.jpgspainparc42.jpgspainparc43.jpgspainparc54.jpgspainparc55.jpgspainparc56.jpgspainparc57.jpgthis was restored after being vandalized last Spring–it’s a dragon!spainparc59.jpgspainparc60.jpgspainparc61.jpgspainparc64.jpgspainparc62.jpgBarcelona!And now a Spanish cat!





One person cares or is very bored to “Spain”

  1. KYLE C. Says:

    Those houses remind me of the smurf huts but instead for giants! (spainparc59)

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