Tuesday, January 22, 2008

La Sagrada Familia – Antoni Gaudí

Gaudí's Cathedral:





Still under construction...
















Notice the classic style of smooth, rounded figures...



The New is very different from the Old...



The New, block-style of the sculptures is very unique...






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Our evening trip to Montjuic:














Rear of the Museum...


The Barcelona Olympic 1992 Soccer Field... oh, I mean Fútbol...

Saturday, January 19, 2008

Más de Barcelona


l'Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, which contains the section of UAB where we attend classes.


Front gates of l'Hospital







Shots of the Hospital along one of the streets.






Inside the UAB building in the Hospital complex. This is the International Campus, where they teach classes in English.




Shwetha, she is in my Spanish Art and Culture and Spanish language classes.



Trey in our room... I'll post more pictures of our apartment soon...


Most cabs are new Mercedes or Skodas... but this guy doesn't care...



l'Hospital


UAB Main Campus, about 45 minutes outside Barcelona past the bordering mountains.


Smart


Near the mountain, the west side of Barcelona. There are some very nice neighborhoods up here.







A more middle-class neighborhood.


Another cathedral. There are many of these in Barcelona since it was one of the last southern major cities before Moorish Muslim territory from the 700s to 1492.


and another...


and another...


and another...


and another...


A Monastery on Tibidabo mountain.


The tram station we used to get to the top of Tibidabo... unfortunately I did not have my camera that day. Maybe I can get some photos from Trey...


Some large house near the tram station.



One of a few houses on the mountain.



An intersection in a neighborhood in the north section of Barcelona.


A major roadway on the north side.


Another Cathedral in mid-east area of the city, about a mile from the beach.


Tuesday, January 15, 2008

More Coming Soon!

Sorry ya'll I haven't been able to post more recently, I will add some pictures very soon... Classes just started today and I already have homework! AAAAAA!

Friday, January 11, 2008

La Ciudad y El Mar


From the modern era (late 1800s – early 1900s), very gaudy, of which you will see more...




All sidewalks have a special pattern / design, much of which is stone (marble)



Gaudí, designed by the man himself (Casa Battló)




Another Gaudí

Designed with absolutely no straight lines.

Inside the Gaudí building

The Gaudí ceiling







A Cathedral… too bad it is being restored this year


We sure look like tourists…







Harbor


The Mediterranean

Very course sand




The small, sea side of town. Some API students are living in apartments in this neighborhood.



A very small bar/sandwich shop for lunch…




Placa España, about 400m from our apartment, up Paral.lel street


MontJuic, up the street from La Placa España