We had a quiet sea day after Gibraltar, and then a day in Barcelona. I can understand why Barcelona is such a popular city with tourists, it's simply beautiful. Our shore excursion concentrated on the buildings of Anton Gaudi, in particular
La Sagrada Familia which of course is not yet complete even though construction started in 1882. It already soars over most of the buildings in the city and is going to be much higher once complete. When I first saw pictures of it I was underwhelmed but it grew on me so by the time we got here I was very keen to see it, even despite knowing that the people of Barcelona don't really want tourists in their city (I had originally planned to stay onboard the ship because of this).
First we saw a couple of other of his works - you can see that he did not believe in straight lines:
And, a few photos of some small parts of the Sagrada Familia, although none of these can really do it justice:
They're hoping to finish it by 2026 and the highest tower will be at least 100 metres higher than any of the current ones - seems to me it will be very much the tallest building in the city and definitely the most amazing.
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