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Old Town We begin our private tour of Barcelona. Since we only had one day in this...
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Parc Guell Gaudi was commissioned in the 1890's to design a garden city on 50 acres.
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Parc Guell Little of the grand design for public buildings and 60 houses in landscaped...
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Parc Guell What we see of the park today was completed between 1910 and 1914 and...
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Parc Guell This brightly colored dragon guards the steps to the park.
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Parc Guell The Room of a Hundred Columns. Designed to be a market hall, with 84 crooked...
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Parc Guell Just above the Room of a Hundred Columns is the Gran Placa Circular.
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Gran Placa Circular This area is an open space with a snaking balcony of coloured mosaics, whose...
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Parc Guell Panoramic view from the Gran Placa Circular.
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Parc Guell A view of the Gran Placa Circular above the Room of a Hundred Columns.
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Parc Guell This private house sits near the top of the hill of Parc Guell.
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Casa Museu Gaudi In Parc Guell. Gaudi lived here from 1906 to 1926. Now the Casa-Museu Gaudi.
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Wild Parrot This is one of the many that escaped from the zoo, now living in Parc Guell...
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Spires One of the eight spires built. 12 spires are designed, one for each apostle....
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Casa Mila Another amazing site by Antoni Gaudi. This building is usually called...
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Casa Mila Casa Mila was Gaudi's last work before devoting himself completely to the...
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Casa Mila Interior of one of the apartments designed by Gaudi.
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Casa Mila The rooftop is the highlight of this fantastic building.
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Casa Mila The sculptured ducts and chimneys are known as espanta-bruixes, or...
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Casa Mila View from the rooftop over a portion of the city of Barcelona.
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Casa Mila Gaudi designed this eight floor apartment block around two circular courtyards.
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Casa Mila Courtyard detail. The ironwork, by Josep Maria Jujol, are like seaweed...
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Casa Mila Gaudi - sometimes strange and unusual, sometimes beautiful, always...
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Tapas Bar We ate lunch at this wonderful Tapas Bar in the afternoon.
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Tapas Bar How it works is... you order your drinks, then, a whole bunch of...
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Monument a Colom The Columbus Monument. This monument marks the spot where Columbus stepped...
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La Rambla Now, this is a fun street. A pedestrian street that is filled with amazing...
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La Rambla Some people will do anything for a Euro. Even sit on a toilet for the...
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La Boqueria A spectacular food market on La Rambla. This is the main entrance from La...
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La Boqueria Colorful dried fruits and candies. The displays were all eye catching.
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Gothic peek A look into a building in the Gothic quarter. The deep interior color...
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Placa Reial Barcelona's most lively square developed in the 1850's. the lampposts...
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Barri Gotic I think the first thing I noticed were the fantastic streetlamps.
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Barri Gotic One of the many unique and eye-catching streetlamps in the Gothic Quarter.
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Barri Gotic The Gothic Quarter is the oldest part of the city, and the most unique.
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Barri Gotic Palau Reial. The Royal Palace was dates back to the 13th century.
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Barri Gotic Something is always watching over you in the Gothic Quarter.
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Last Look Our last view of the fabulous city of Barcelona from our balcony,...
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