Gaudi's Barcelona

My day tour of Barcelona began at the Sagrada Familia, the symbol of the city and probably the most famous church under construction. The construction of this Gaudi's masterpiece began in 1882 and is still work in progress. This is sometime cited as the 8th wonder of the world.

The twin twin-towers.

The main front(?) entrance

The left wing

The Nativity facade

The boy Jesus

The dove filled cypress tree of peace.

The interior forest of concrete trees

The passion facade.

The betrayal kiss

The denial crow

The Magic Square - anyone guess the significance?

From the Sangra Familia, we next visited another of Gaudi's famous site in Barcelone. This is a popular park called Parc Guell which is full of fanciful and unusual structures of Gaudi. Near the entrance is the Gaudi's house which is now a museum.

Other art houses in the park.

There are cool, colourful park benches to rest tired feet.

Natural and stone palm tress.

Alice's mushroom or phallic symbol?

Stone waves.

You know what you can do with broken cups and saucers from kitchen fights.

The crowded balcony.

There'll be more of Barcelona's tourist sites in my next post.

Ronald Kwok

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