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Palau Nacional (National Palace)

Palau Nacional (National Palace)

Barcelona’s Palau Nacional appears, at first glance, to be a very grand, old building. Looks can be deceiving! This sprawling structure that houses the National Art Museum of Catalonia was actually built in 1929 for the International Exhibition.

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Fundacio Antoni Tapies

Fundacio Antoni Tapies

The Antonio Tapies Foundation is housed in a building designed by Domenech i Montaner in the 1880s. Catalonian artist Antonio Tapies launched the foundation in 1984 for the promotion and appreciation of contemporary art. On the facade is a tangle of coiled wire sculpture. Created in 1970, it is entitled Cloud and Chair. Inside is a collection of Antonio Tapies` work. There are also temporary exhibitions by other artists.

Carrer d` Arago, Barcelona 08007 - Spain

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Planeta Building

Planeta Building

Planeta Building, headquarters of the Grupo Planeta.
The strange house what covered with plants.

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Street railway

Street railway

Street railway is covered with soft grass

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Placa Catalunya

Placa Catalunya

Placa Catalunya is a large square in central Barcelona that is generally considered to be both its city centre and the place where the old city and the 19th century-built Eixample meet.

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view from Barcelona

view from Barcelona

Nice house with the gardens and stairways, what we've seen from the garden of Güell Park

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Columbus Monument

Columbus Monument

At the center of the Square of the Gate of Peace (Placa de la Porta de Pau) stands a monumental column topped by a statue of Christoffel Columbus. The 60m high monument, known as the Monument a Colom, was designed by Gaietā Buigas i Monravā for the Universal exhibition of 1888.

The 7m high statue shows a standing Columbus pointing towards the sea. Oddly enough, he is not pointing in the direction of the new world he discovered.

The column can be visited, a lift brings you to a platform from where you have an excellent view over the Rambla and Port Vell.

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Sculpture on the roof

Sculpture on the roof

I like this sculpture on the roof, what I found close to Casa Battlo

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Street at the beach promenade

Street at the beach promenade

When we go to swim, there was nice street at the beach promenade with lot of palms.
Don't laught at this, because for northern people as estonians, to see the palms in nature are still exotic like pines and piceas in nature for southern people. :)

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Flowering tree

Flowering tree

We saw one beautiful flowering tree, where was flowering only one bough.

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Next one house with plants

Next one house with plants

House, where the plants are far from windows .... strange, how they watered them?

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Barcelona zoo

Barcelona zoo

We wasn't in Zoo, but we saw the gate of zoo ;)

Barcelona Zoological Park was first open in 1892.
The large collection of primates, all in danger of extinction, with Snowflake as star attraction. He was the only albino gorilla known to exist, and was found in 1966 in what was then Spanish Guinea.
Prices:
Adults 15,40 EUR
Children (3-12 years of age) 9,30 EUR
Groups of adults (twenty or more) 12,00 EUR
Groups of school, Day Camp or youth club children (up to 18 years of age) 6,50 EUR
Groups of nursery or nursery-school children (under 3 years of age) 2,70 EUR
Old-age pensioners (European Union) 8,15 EUR
Old-age pensioners with Barcelona Metropolitan Area pink discount card 3,80 EUR
Old-age pensioners with pink discount card Free

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typical parking

Typical parking

It's a typical parking cars in streets of Barcelona.

Interesting, who is driving away at first ;)

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Street musicians

On the streets of Barcelona we saw several street musicans. This is one example ...