Home - 2005 - Spain - 1 - Barcelona


Photographer: Josh Eckels


Our hotel, the Duquesa de Cardona

Esglesia de Santa Maria del Mar

Monument a Colom at the end of La Rambla

A bit of aqueduct

Corner of Museu d'Historia de la Ciutat

Claustre at the cathedral, populated by geese for centuries

The centuries-old geese attack

Geese and orange trees in the cathedral

View from the balcony

Ceiling and stained glass

Good Gothic construction

Altar with Sant Crist de Lepant

Museu Picasso on a rainy day

La Rambla

Lots of crazy stuff

Main entrance to Mercat de la Boqueria

La Rambla in the sunshine

Sagrada Familia, probably the strangest building you'll ever see

Nativity Facade, including its weird tree. And lots of other weird stuff

Funny angle for a funny building

It's melting

Perhaps the most normal photo you can take here

Lots of scaffolding

Tile to be installed

Wacky columns

Passion Facade, with blockhead sculptures

View from the side

Nothing makes something sacred like writing "Sanctus" all over it

The whole Passion Facade

Four towers

Folding walls

Buildings inside Parc Guell

Casa Museu Gaudi, looking like a gingerbread house

Some other building, looking even more like a gingerbread house

Open area in Parc Guell near the Banc de Trencadis

Looking toward downtown Barcelona

Wider view of Banc de Trencadis

Sagrada Familia from the path in the park

Sagrada Familia from the path in the park

Barcelona from the top of Turo del Calvari

None of the guidebooks seem to mention this hill

Inside Esglesia de Santa Maria del Mar

Light fixture inside the church

Stained glass over the main entrance

Altar inside Esglesia de Santa Maria del Mar

Palau de la Musica Catalana

Fountains in Placa de Cataluyna

Gaudi's little contribution to Manzana de la Discordia (Apple[Block] of Discord)

Even the sidewalk tile is strange

On the bridge over the moat at Montjuic

View of the city from the Montjuic overlook

Military museum

Placa Reial

 

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