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PostPosted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 10:06 pm    Post subject: Barcelona Reply with quote
I'm Just came back from a week-end Barcelona for Valentine days. This city is definitly amazing, at once very Catalan, Spanish, European and cosmopolitan. At once the old medieval city of the "Barri Gotic", to the chic and 19th century's bourgeois districs of the "Eixample", passing from the "modernism (art nouveau)" of Domenech i Montaner and Gaudi to some of the best contemporary architecture of 20th...
































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Nice pics! Unfortunately, I hate Barcelona, mainly because it's so popular and everybody loves it so much. And my mental image of Barceona is very dominated by a Swedish travel guide to the city I once read, written by a respectable Swedish journalist who lived in Barcelona during the Franco era and apparently mainly hung out with prostitutes alias/or political dissidents.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 11:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I especially like the third picture, with the different styles.
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 12:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I like the Gaudi's architecture, it's beautiful, original, and amazing
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 12:25 pm    Post subject: Re: Barcelona Reply with quote
fab wrote:
I'm Just came back from a week-end Barcelona for Valentine days.


Veinard !
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 8:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Yes, that architecture sure is different from what I'm used to. Interesting! You didn't happen to visit any graveyard, did you?
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Why would anybody want to visit a graveyard on Valentine's Day? Sure, till death do us part, but let's enjoy ourselves in the meantime!
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 1:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Fredrik wrote:
Why would anybody want to visit a graveyard on Valentine's Day? Sure, till death do us part, but let's enjoy ourselves in the meantime!


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PostPosted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 8:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Fredrik wrote:
Why would anybody want to visit a graveyard on Valentine's Day? Sure, till death do us part, but let's enjoy ourselves in the meantime!


Because they're beautiful.
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