Visiting two of Barcelona's main attractions, Park Guell and Sagrada Familia, the amazing church designed by Gaudi that will be the world's tallest when finished in ten years. Begin the day at Park Guell, a whimsical fantasy of colored ceramics, weird buildings, bizarre pavilions and curved paths winding through a lush garden setting.
The park’s structures are curved in a mélange of fairy-tale shapes covered with mosaics of broken tiles in a style called “trencadis.” Most of these tiles are brightly colored creating dazzling surfaces on the benches and columns, while other tiles are earth-brown fragments covering various pavilions and structures that look like they have grown out of the ground. Craftsmen worked under Gaudi’s direction to create these amazing mosaics by smashing porcelain plates and pottery into little pieces then arranging them like a jigsaw puzzle.
The number one attraction of Barcelona is undoubtedly Sagrada Familia. This unfinished church is a whimsical, steel-beamed mountain growing out of the landscape, really organic, alive, like no other building you have ever seen.
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