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The Romans didn't much like Barcelona, but they should have stuck around. This second city of Spain is now Spain's hippest town. Summer gives way to periodic lapses in sanity with week-long festa fun. But year-round the city cooks - it's always on the biting edge of fashion, architecture, food, style, music and good times.
The buildings, featuring the work of an eccentric genius named Gaudí, will blow you away. The art, with significant collections by Picasso and Miró, will make you clammy all over. The people, with their exuberance, their duende, their persistent egalitarianism and clamour for a separate identity, will fascinate you.
Barcelona is one of the most dynamic and exciting cities on the western Mediterranean seaboard, sedulously promoting itself as a European metropolis, a link between the sub-Pyrenean peninsula and the heartland of Western Europe. It is a city that is inconceivable until you get there, unbelievable while you walk its streets and unforgettable after you've gone.
(Courtesy of Lonely Planet)
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rexvaughan Wed Jul 4, 2007 21:12 UTC
Thanks for taking me to beautiful Barcelona again. Hope your birthday is a wonderful one. | Kuznetsov_Sergey Wed Nov 29, 2006 14:56 UTC
Thanks Helga for very nice page about the city which brings a lot of memories... Yes, La Rambla is the perfect place to stroll and Antonio Gaudi is the genius of Catalunian modernism | 36waterfalls Tue Nov 28, 2006 14:51 UTC
I love Gaudi as well! Off re-visiting Barcelona in February! | scottishvisitor Fri Feb 18, 2005 22:00 UTC
Barcelona tops for architecture Good page |
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