Barcelona - the city gave the world the great geniuses: Gaudí, Picasso, Dalí, Montserrat Caballe and Jose Carreras. The land on which the present day descendants live medieval troubadours and proud of the Spanish giants. A place where each stone scorched by the sun and hot tempered truly Spanish pride. And despite all the epithets, this ancient city takes in his arms any traveler. Reveals to them their secrets and whispers indistinctly historical chronicles: echoes of steps in the old town, their horns of cars, singing fountains and wind to catch hold of the spiers of the Sagrada Familia.
The subjects of his call, take a dip in the whirlpool of bright exciting of his life, be a part of it for a few days. The only way you will be able to see its true face. Attractions Barcelona can be compared with multicolored mosaics. Slices from all the same. But the picture that will turn out in the end, everyone has their own. The unique and beautiful. Filled with a special atmosphere, the indomitable spirit of freedom and joy and fiery Catalan temperament.
Attractions in Barcelona in abundance. According to legend, the city was founded by the Greek hero Hercules 400 years before Rome. For such a long period of Barcelona has not lost a single gram of its historical and architectural heritage, carefully keeping creations of artists of different eras.
Park Guell
If you do not know where to start discovering Barcelona, follow our advice and start it with the great creations of Gaudi, who became the symbol of the city. This is Park Guell, is located in the suburbs of Barcelona. At the entrance to the park visitors are greeted by a huge dragon. The same dragon, which according to legend, St. George killed to protect the city. Guell able to turn your world upside down. Buildings like grow from the ground. One gets the impression that the earth has wanted to adorn themselves and raised their own small pavilions, sloping arches and even the famous bench in the viewing platform decorated with mosaics - so natural and they fit harmoniously into the surrounding landscape. And the world-famous Hall of hundred columns reminiscent of their own insignificance and vulnerability.
Modernist district of Eixample
To the north of Plaza Catalunya located Eixample quarter. It is not peculiar to the architecture of the European-tuned geometric streets of the quarter. The streets are the same width, crossing each other at right angles, divided into equal squares quarter. If you look at it from a bird's eye, it may seem like a quarter of someone caught in the net. But despite such geometrically correct, then the building does not look like a featureless box.
On the contrary, in the Eixample you will see the creation of three great modernists. In "A quarter of discord", as if competing, frozen opposing Casa Batlló - Antoni Gaudi, Amatler House, a masterpiece of the architect Puig i Cadafalch, and-and-Moorer Leo House, designed by Dumeneka. Compare them together - a futile exercise. They have such an overwhelming impression that, looking at them, it is possible to lose the power of speech. If you think that you have reached all possible limits of admiration, go across the street. It is here that Antonio Gaudi, in an attempt to outdo himself, and built La Pedrera. Flows form phantasmagoria and naturalness - these seemingly contradictory epithets awarded the building and architectural criticism. At its foot froze in delight myself Salvador Dali, and so he was a specialist who knows a lot about in all sorts of oddities.
Gothic Quarter
There are places in Barcelona, where time seemed caught in a trap, canned, freeze made crystal ball at the junction of two worlds. One of them is the Gothic Quarter of the old city. This is where the main attractions in Barcelona, dating back to the birth of the city. Standing on the Plaza Nova (it is the oldest area of Barcelona), you can forget that long ago invented the automobile, television and the Internet, and people have already visited the Moon. Then another time. A different life.
Walking through the cobbled streets of the Gothic Quarter, where every building has a long history, you arrive at the cathedral. Its construction dragged on for two centuries. Just imagine how the architects have worked on its creation. Apparently, for this reason, its silhouette mixed trends of Spanish and French Gothic. In the heart of the cathedral there is a small courtyard. On the path between the plants and manicured bushes proudly stroll geese Saint Eulalia, whose name is the Cathedral.
A ball of tangled streets of the Gothic Quarter, as if through a labyrinth takes you to weird at first glance the Royal Grand Palace. This facility is fully disclose the meaning of the words - proud as Catalan. Restrained, monumental beauty characteristic of all architectural creations in the Gothic style. But it is in the royal palace all built to an excellent degree and brought to the absolute.
Rambla - Arbat middle of Barcelona
Barcelona - landmarks in this city, as you could see, at every step - would be a bit closer and clearer, if you walk along the main street - La Rambla. After a bit of crushing its historical prestige alleys of the Gothic Quarter walk along the Ramblas will be a breath of fresh air. Frozen here and there, living statues, mimes and itinerant musicians, sellers of flowers, birds, newspapers. The mood of the holiday falls on you, bouncing off the walls the main street, so that is not leaving, to accompany the beautiful city as a magic guide. Small outdoor cafes, tall plane trees, the scent of coffee and Spanish wine. Only then can comprehend the incomprehensible, listening to the slow of speech and expressive serene inhabitants of Barcelona.
National Art Museum of Catalonia
Before you begin your own ascent to the 173-meter hill of Montjuic, walk around the Plaza of Spain, because it is here that houses the National Art Museum of Catalonia. Collected it Romanesque art collection is considered the most comprehensive in the world. The frescoes and wall paintings dating back to 12-13 centuries, a collection of wooden sculpture and painting on wood .... By exposition of the museum you can study the development of art in the Mediterranean. The National Museum has paintings by famous masters: Jaime Yeah, Velazquez, El Greco and Luis Dalmau. And if you was not enough modernist architectural creations, among them also exhibited paintings given a whole exposition.
Magic Fountain
Barcelona can be considered a city where the architecture of the most widely represented modernism. At the foot of the Montjuic up singing fountain, designed by Gaudi disciple Josep Zhuzholom. A huge area of 3000 square meters and the height of the jet up to 50 meters, this futuristic giant jump into the air tons of pure artesian water, accompanied by musical masterpieces composers of all eras. And if you want to see this masterpiece of modernism in all its glory visit it in the evening. You will enjoy the magic spectacle of music and light show on the falling jet fountain.
Climb to Montjuic
To get to Montjuic in two ways: by cable car and on foot, carrying his own ascent through the historical periods of the city. In the first case, you will lose the lion's share of pleasure, because to see the sights of Barcelona an aerial view you can, and from the observation deck at the top. But go to the Spanish village, a museum where the main architectural masterpieces of the city, to see with their own eyes the ruins of the Temple of Apollo (the burial place of the carnival sardines), breathe in the smell of flowering herbs - all this can be felt only overcome all the way on their own. A journey from the present to the past, to see from the top of the hill on which stretches at your feet proud beauty of Barcelona.
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