So, you will be visiting Barcelona and you have on your bucket list a tour of Antoni Gaudí i Cornet’s Park Güell…
So, you will be visiting Barcelona and you have on your bucket list a tour of Antoni Gaudí i Cornet’s Park Güell…
Looking up, once again, this time at the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, or MNAC. Their exhibits are wonderful–especially their collection of meticulously preserved Romanesque church mural paintings dating from the 11th to 13th centuries–but here I present a photo essay on the much more recent (20th century) MNAC ceilings…
Some 12% of the GDP of Catalunya is linked to the tourist industry. COVID has hit that part of the region’s economy especially hard–no tourists, no money. But, ironically, it also has made visits to places that are normally overrun much more enjoyable…
Not far from Barcelona, and just 18 kilometers (12 miles) as the seagull soars from Mediterranean waters, is an “island in the sky” that rises 5,597 feet above mean sea level. Not a bad place to find a bit of tranquility…
How bad could it be, really? Well…
“Fossa” de Mar on the Costa Brava of Spain? Never heard of it… To what do you refer, young man?
Just minutes outside of Barcelona, a beautifully-bizarre church that is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, an [updated] early 20th century textile worker colony, ornate modernist homes, and some nearby castle ruins as a bonus…
There is a big rock by the sea just north of the Costa del Maresme town of Sant Pol de Mar. It seems to be a sort of magnet for all kinds…
Trapped inside the city and getting itchy climbing fingers? Well, here is a summary of places, both indoors and outdoors, to climb within Barcelona city itself…
Details of our journey, in times of COVID, from Argentina back to Spain. This could be useful to some as there are still quite a number of Spanish citizens and residents “trapped” by COVID-19 restrictions in the land of gauchos, the best beef, soccer, and the temptuous tango…