While in Valencia we got the opportunity to sample the most famous of Spanish dishes:
We had a small but very nice 10th floor apartment in Barcelona:
Around the city centre there are several Gaudi buildings, Casa Mila (La Pedrera) is one of the more recognizable:
No straight lines there.
Another building not far away:
Barcelona has many other beautiful buildings not designed by Gaudi:
His crowning achievement which is still not complete nearly a hundred years after his death, is the Sagrada Familia. Impossible to do do justice with some amateur pics but anyway...
Not sure which is the 'main' entrance but this is the way we went in:
On either side of the building stained glass dominates, on one side this:
On the other side a predominantly different colour:
The stone work is almost delicate:
Like filigree.
The camera does distort the image but these columns are NOT vertical:
The whole thing seems like a fever dream and he was given the go ahead for this by the Catholic Church well over a century ago.
On our last day e visited Park Guell for a last dose:
Mosaics abound here, above the dragon, symbol for the park.
Another mosaic:
All the buildings here are topped with mosaic:
A view to the ocean with La Sagrada Familia in the distance:
Gaudi was always trying to parallel nature with his architecture:
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However, his house is not quite so 'out there':
