Barcelona Day 2

What a full and wonderful day!  We had a semi-private tour if Barcelona to get oriented, starting out at Parc Guell that was created by Gaudi with a vision of building 60 homes there. Only 2 were built, one Gaudi's.  The mosaic work is inspiring and makes me want to start playing with the medium!

In Parc Guell on a mosaic-backed bench.

We visited La Barceloneta, a lively big park on a hill over looking the city where the Olympics were held and the home of a number of museums and an artisan collective.  

The highlights of the day were full-immersion in Gaudi's masterpieces, La Pietra - the apartment building we rode past the day before.  It is beautiful with so many details and no straight lines.  The highlight was going to the roof - the chimneys and ventilation shafts were all so imaginative and beautiful.

Chimneys - looks like George Lucas might have been inspired by this!

Our biggest treat was going inside La Sagrada Familia cathedral.  This hand-crafted cathedral was started in the 1880s was only consecrated in 2010 and is expected to be completed in 2030!  It is full of magnificant details! We got to go up the towers and enjoyed the magnificence if this wholehearted tribute to the holy by Gaudi.

Main columns.

In a tower

Coming down from the tower.

Doves on the cedar tree from the tower.  They symbolize the faithful.

This was a truly inspiring day. Thank you, Gaudi!