La Sagrada Familia

If you are into art and architecture, you need to go to Barcelona! The city was basically one big canvas for the architect Gaudi, whose work is fascinating. In our third day in Barcelona, I rented a bike and set out to explore all it had to offer.

The first and most obvious stop is the Sagrada Familia, a huge church that started being constructed in 1882, and isn’t going to be finished for another 30 years. The detail on this building is unbelievable. Not a single inch of this huge structure has gone untouched. Some parts look as though the building is alive, much of it appears to be melting, and other parts seem skeletal in nature. It seems dark and nightmarish, and beautifully dreamlike at the same time. I can’t even imagine what was going on inside Gaudi’s head, and how he could think up this stuff. And then to communicate it on paper for others to build, seems almost impossible to me. I was completely blown away by this building, as well as by much of Gaudi’s other work.