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La Alcoba Azul

dhiraj — Fri, 18 Oct 2019 21:18:03 +0000

La Alcoba Azul is hidden in the small streets of the Gothic Quarter. The atmosphere in La Alcoba Azul is great: the bar is completely decorated in the medieval style. There is a wooden floor, the walls are very old and there are chandeliers with candles hanging throughout the whole place. On top of that, they have great music, serve original tapas, and have great house wines and mojitos.

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Bar La Plata

dhiraj — Fri, 18 Oct 2019 21:11:50 +0000

Bar La Plata is one of those tiny, authentic Spanish bars. The place opened in 1945, serving just four dishes, and they still serve the same plates today. Their specialties are: fried fish, pieces of tomato bread with anchovies, a typical Catalan sausage, butifarra, and a salad of tomato, onion and olives. These classic recipes are simple, but are made in a great way. It is one of the oldest tapas bars in Barcelona, where you can feel like a local for a while.

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Fountain of Montjuïc

dhiraj — Fri, 18 Oct 2019 20:57:45 +0000

The magic fountain of Montjuïc’s (Font màgica de Montjuïc in Catalan) first performance was on May 19, 1929 during the Great Universal Exhibition. The designer Carles Buigas submitted his plans one year before the exhibition and many thought that the project was too ambitious to be created, let alone completed on time.

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Antic Theatre

dhiraj — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 03:15:53 +0000

Not quite a speakeasy bar, Antic Theatre is just the kind of place that doesn’t bother advertising itself because it doesn’t really want anyone else knowing it’s there. Content with the full-house it racks up every weekend and most evenings, the venue is a theater as well as a bar with an open air courtyard located just by the Palau de la Música. You could easily walk past it as there’s no sign on the street telling you where it is and the stairs at the entrance occult the beautiful outdoors space nestled between old stone houses. Attracting a young, indie crowd, this is an endlessly laid-back hang-out which doesn’t need to try hard to be cool.

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FC Barcelona Museum

dhiraj — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 02:36:34 +0000

Anyone who knows just how popular Barcelona’s football club – FC Barcelona – are in the city and in the world will not be surprised that they have their very own museum right at the heart of the club’s home: the Camp Nou stadium. First inaugurated in 1984, the museum has been refurbished throughout the years to keep up to date with the club’s ongoing success. The museum attracts over 1.2 million visitors a year, making it the second most popular museum in the city. Browse through old photos of the players or admire some of their most impressive trophies as part of the popular ‘Camp Nou Experience’. FC Barcelona Museum, C. Aristides Maillol, Barcelona

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La Sagrada Família

dhiraj — Sun, 06 Oct 2019 04:45:51 +0000

If you have time for only one sightseeing outing, this should be it. La Sagrada Família inspires awe by its sheer verticality, and in the manner of the medieval cathedrals it emulates, it’s still under construction. Work began in 1882 and is hoped (perhaps optimistically) to be completed in 2026, a century after the architect’s death. Unfinished it may be, but it attracts more than 4.5 million visitors a year and is the most visited monument in Spain.

Pope Benedict XVI consecrated the church as a minor basilica in a huge ceremony in November 2010.

The Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família (Expiatory Temple of the Holy Family) was Antoni Gaudí’s all-consuming obsession. Given the commission by a conservative society that wished to build a temple as atonement for the city’s sins of modernity, Gaudí saw its completion as his holy mission. As funds dried up, he contributed his own, and in the last years of his life he was never shy of pleading with anyone he thought a likely donor.

Gaudí devised a temple 95m long and 60m wide, able to seat 13,000 people, with a central tower 170m high above the transept (representing Christ) and another 17 of 100m or more. The 12 along the three facades represent the Apostles, while the remaining five represent the Virgin Mary and the four evangelists. With his characteristic dislike for straight lines (there were none in nature, he said), Gaudí gave his towers swelling outlines inspired by the weird peaks of the holy mountain Montserrat outside Barcelona, and encrusted them with a tangle of sculpture that seems an outgrowth of the stone.

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