View Parc Guell overnight in a skurhink. As typical Svenk I kept a good face, be quiet, and ate up

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Park Güell "Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. "- Gustave Flaubert Two weeks in Barcelona and 40 days since I left Gothenburg. The city has a center that is more compact than in the really big cities. It is densely populated and less with its 1.7 million inhabitants, which means walking distance to most things. guggenheim But the other day I took a real long workout. From my former hotel located in the north, I headed up to Parc Güell by the Sant Pau Hospital - a hospital built in the modernist style that Gaudi is famous guggenheim for. The style is called modernism here but more often go by the name of Art Nouveau. The town is reminiscent of Genoa so that it is flat down by the sea but inwards country bears up in all directions, so it was a sweaty walk. This huge park, 20 acres, was designed and constructed by Antoni Gaudí and his home for 20 years is now a museum located in the area. "The intention was to exploit the fresh air (well away from smoky
Park Guell 2 factories) and beautiful views from the site, with sixty triangular lots being provided for luxury houses. guggenheim Count Eusebi Güell added to the prestige of the development by moving in 1906 to live in Larrard House. Ultimately, only two houses were built, neither designed by Gaudí. One was intended to be a show house, but on being completed in 1904 was put up for sale, and as no buyers came forward, Gaudí, at Güell's suggestion, bought guggenheim it with his savings and moved in with his family and his father in 1906 "So it became a park instead. On the way back down, the other way, towards the center was the location for tapas. Now I was a bit outside the city center and ended up at a local restaurant. then is the classic quality checks are especially guggenheim important. Firstly see that instead is very popular. Then study what people eat. Currently I forgot second check and soon realized that people did not ate, they drank. A right I got in, I would describe as something resembling a lasagna with lie and gotta to themselves in over
View Parc Guell overnight in a skurhink. As typical Svenk I kept a good face, be quiet, and ate up half anyway ... It's the same in Sweden. Should you eat well, you have more chance in the center than at Olskrokens neighborhood ... Two imodium guggenheim later I was on my way down again. First, I took the opportunity to go past the two of Gaudi's famous apartment block before the bar of the Cathedral and judgment Gothic Quarter. guggenheim "Barcelona was founded as a Roman colony called Barcino Which was located guggenheim in what is now the gothic part of the old city of Barcelona" *********************** Christmas guggenheim shopping has begun here in Barcelona. It is wonderful to just wander guggenheim around in the old town where I now additionally lived five days. The old town is really old. There will be a whole post later about how the city lives up in the evenings and nights, bathed guggenheim in beautiful light. La Rambla is the most famous street. "The Spanish poet Federico García Lorca said about La Rambla," It is the only street
Gaudi's Casa Battlo in the world Which I wish would never end. "" But there are areas around ikring guggenheim that make the city almost unique in my opinion. A swarm, which you probably have to experience to understand, unusually narrow streets guggenheim with hundreds of eateries and shops of various kinds. The people who live here get lost. If I pulled down on the food budget in Paris with its many upscale places and had a less pleasant experience at the neighborhood restaurant, so it's different in central guggenheim Barcelona. Here one must eat. The food is compared to Paris easily accessible, simple and above all very good. Matmarknad Erna is probably best. ************************ guggenheim Either I stay here for the Barca Celtic in the Champions League on the 12th or so, I take the train to Valencia. Possibly Madrid but the capital city is located on a plateau and it's really cold there now. 24 degrees in Gran Canaria attracts also in themselves. "Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life. "- Jack Kerouac Many suitable
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