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Saturday, April 14, 2007

Park Guell: Park Guell

A fantastic welcome to brighten this dreary morning of an all-day park tour...

"If it's called 'tourist season,' why can't we shoot them?"
This is one of many abandoned buildings that has been taken over by young and old who cannot afford houses in the overpopulated and pricey city.

Gingerbread? Mmmm...no. This. Is. Gaudi.



Tile: The beauty is in the detail


Greetings from Gaudi's creature...



at least we know he has SOME concept of the order in life :-)

"Sweet...more columns," you say?

Indeed--but also QUITE large and covering a pretty big area which was originally intended to be a market, if I'm not mistaken. This whole park was originally designed to be an independent town...Autonomous, if you will.


Sean is LOVING the Gaudi bench, the most infamous area of the Park


Yeah...we are architects...and this is AWESOME...no matter WHO you are.


A view from inside


Turo dels tres creus-Hill of 3 Crosses...Billy is the stand-in...I think Rob took the other cross home...? haha


And there she is, Barca herself.
To your left, Torre Agbar.
Slightly left, Sagrada Familia.
At center, the towers at the beach of Villa Olimpic.
In front-the mar Mediterraneo
Behind-las montanas
Here...Turo dels tres creus...CUArch

Mon and the gatito


Sean and el creu


Another incredible colonnade


Did I mention yet how ridiculous this architecture is?!
So...we were impressed...obviously. And it may take us a while to realize it, but 8 am in the rain actually IS the best way to see Guell, according to Professor Vidal: no tourists.

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