Featured this week: more sights! Above, the "magical fountain," a beautiful lights/fountain display that changes with classical music every Thursday and Saturday night. The real life equivalent of music visualizers. Awesome.
We also finally visited la Sagrada Familia, the church that Gaudi designed. Parts of it were tacky (for example, "Sanctus Sanctus Sanctus Sanctus" on the bell towers of one of the facades), but on the whole, I was supremely impressed by the building. My favorite part was the facade with the stations of the cross done in a sort of cubist sculptural style. Very powerful. The interior was also breathtaking:
We also visited the MNAC, the national museum of Catalan art. They had some very cool stuff, including the piece above with two zombie-looking smiling corpses.
Saturday Charlie and I went to Sitges, a beautiful beach community, and Saturday night, we went to a huge free music festival at Montjuic, where we listened to a blues band in a castle, among other things. They sounded remarkably American.
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