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Sagrada Família

Will he ever done? Should we ever finished? And what is funny up there, which has distorted? Gaudi's most monstrous creation provides lots of material for discussion. Nobody stroll around the Sagrada Família silent in fear. Everybody seems to cause, or compete excited to point out that some details crazy captured them.
Try here first, which in the morning, before the tour buses to arrive, otherwise you can schlurfend in a queue endlessly. Throw yourself take a look at the Barcelona museum in the crypt, where there are many models and photos to give youan Hotels in Barcelona idea of how it happened. Gaudí was 31 when he started work in 1883 and thedevelopment of a system constantly increasing, originality, ambition and scale. When he died in 1926, had all that was finished, the crypt, the apse and part of the Church of the Nativity sculptural façade, in which the three portals representing hope, faith and charity are limited, and with a mass of numbers and strange shapes get wet. It is a painted pottery decorated with cypress trees with pigeons on the portal of the charity, as well as the angel playing musical instruments, a pelican on the departure and a palm, a snake that windend with an apple - representatives of the Garden of Eden.

It might be possible, the building of 2015, but there are many people who believe that the Barcelona Hotels would have left as a monument to the memory Shell Gaudí'svisionary genius, but swept away. The sharp crenellated Barcelona towers were inspired by the erosion of slots in the Sierra mountains of Montserrat, which is one of the strongest symbols of Catalonia and is very important to Gaudí. Take the elevator part of the road, towers, and then the steps of the spiral of opening rounds, no doubt a surreal experience to induce claustrophobia and vertigo Agoraphobia all at the same time. Be sure to stone snakes, lizards, frogs, symbolize the exile of poorly thought of the church. The Lolli-like pieces of the towers, the Murano glass representing the bishops, with the cross, mitre, ring and economies of scale. Work urges the Commission at this time on the facade of the Passion, based on plans Gaudí.

To refresh, a few blocks Mantequeria Ravell, a fabulous part of the test, the best products of local meats, cheese, and much more, and a glass of wine Catalan (it is also ideal for breakfast on the road). Any part of a large marble table on the back, above £ 5 for a sandwich and a drink.

•Plaça Sagrada Família (93207 3031, http://www.sagradafamilia.org). Hours: daily from9-6pm. £ 5.60. Mantequeria Ravell, C/Arag- 313 (93457 5114).