May 3rd:
We wanted to revisit Gaudi’s famous buildings and projects including the La Sagrada Familia Church and Parc Guell. Enroute to the park, we were given a short tour of the city including several of Gaudi’s buildings.
As we traveled through Barcelona, our guide pointed out this one in the photo below. The building on the right won early recognition for Gaudi.
Parc Guell is filled with Gaudi structures, buildings and art and jammed with tourists and locals enjoying them.
But the highlight of the tour was our visit to La Sagrada Familia.church. This is not the Barcelona Cathedral. It is just a church. During our visit five years ago, the inside was a series of barricades, scaffolding, and construction debris. Our tour guide told us the Pope’s visit last November gave the construction effort a significant push and put the focus on the interior. What a change!!!! The outside doesn’t appear to have changed much over the past four years.
The inside certainly did. An altar was installed with a number of interesting enhancements. The inside actually is more impressive than St. Peter’s in Rome!
Prior to our departure from Barcelona we were treated to a folkloric show by the Famenco Jose de la Vega performers.
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