Barcelona is a great city with a awesome nightlife and lots of exceptional food. I know this. i know all about this city. I was there for approximately 24 hours. My roommate Caitlin and I had just (barely) made the train from Nice, France to Barcelona after staying in France for two extra days to... umm.. take in all the wonderful educational experiences Nice had to offer us, and had only ONE day to see everything in barcelona. so what did we do? What any girl in their early 20s would do... we drank too much, partied a lot and very last minute woke up late the next morning, drank our weight in coffee, and ran around with a book of "top ten of barcelona."
Of course everything worked out gracefully for us. the most wonderful and truly magical part of barcelona, and really all of europe, was making it to see Gaudi's work splattered around the city. Barcelona tends to remind me of a lot of big cities in Europe... until you stumble across these magnificent creations of architecture. Below is the Sagrada Familia. It was still under construction when we were there but completely breath-taking nonetheless. It was at Gaudi's work that caitlin and I were able to take some serious.silent.pensive moments to admire how magical our world really it.
walking down a busy street to find casa bastiló just hangin out or coming across park guell to all of a sudden find yourself in a less trippy alice in wonderland made me not only appreciate all the hard work that goes into these masterpieces. but, it also made me think about the mental process an architect like gaudi experiences when imagining places like these. it is obvious that every detail was covered. every corner was carefully crafted. turning the corners of the structures, i saw how this one piece came together on its own, but also how it was part of a bigger picture. art within art within art. and that is the most remarkable kind.
casa bastiló.
casa milá.
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