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December 20, 2016
5 posts
Basilica Santa Maria del Mar
This cathedral was built between 1329 and 1383 at the height of Catalonia’s maritime and mercantile preeminence, but a church has been on this site since 998 – over 1,000…
Casa Batllo
Another fine example of Gaudi’s work in an apartment building. Casa Batllo (pronounced “bye-yo”) was built in 1877 but Gaudi redesigned it in 1904 for the family Batllo. As with…
La Sagrada Familia
What an incredible place this is. From the outside it is a construction zone as work began on La Sagrada Familia in 1882 and only reached the midpoint in 2010,…
La Boqueria
If it’s something we both love to visit when we travel it’s a good market. Mercat St. Josep la Boqueria in Barcelona is generally spoken of as one of the…