"Barcelona es mucho más!" True, so true. Viva la Catalunya!
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Architecturally Antoni Gaudí's Casa Milà (or La Pedrera) is an innovative work for its steel structure and curtain walls – the façade is self-supporting. Other innovative elements were the construction of underground car parking and separate lifts and stairs for the owners and their servants.
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| On the rooftop there are six skylights/staircase exits (four of which were covered with broken pottery and some that ended in a double cross typical of Gaudí) and twenty-eight chimneys in several groupings, twisted so that the smoke came out better. |
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The Basilica of the Sagrada Família was the inspiration of a Catalan bookseller, Josep Maria Bocabella. After a visit to the Vatican in 1872, Bocabella returned from Italy with the intention of building a church inspired by the one at Loreto. Antoni Gaudí began work on the project in 1883.
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| Lunch at Placa de Santa Maria. |
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| The European Museum of Modern Art, MEAM, exhibits the finest Contemporary Figurative Art. The purpose of MEAM is to promote and diffuse Figurative Art of the 20th and 21st Centuries. |
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Loewe is known around the world as being one of the very best when it comes to luxury leather goods. In 1872 Enrique Roessberg Loewe, a German craftsman specialized in leather working, arrived in Spain and decided to join forces with the leather workshop owners and establish the brand.
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Freixenet headquarters in Sant Sadurní d'Anoia.
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| "Fine, delicate aromas, combining tones of green apple and pear, with
light resonances of Mediterranean fruits – peach, melon and pineapple,
over a base of citrus, all beautifully balanced by light toasty aromas
from bottle maturation." Sip with your pinkie pointing up :) |
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Tablao Flamenco Cordobes was founded in 1970 and it still keeps entertaining night people at Rambla.
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| Restaurant Montserrat, a perfect place for a panorama lunch. Try Aromes de Montserrat for digestive - it's a cure for everything. |
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| Besides the magnificient views Montserrat is also the home of Black Virgin. |
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| Foodie heaven on earth: Tickets Barcelona. |
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| La vida tapa. Una forma de entender la vida. |
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| Vive una experiencia gastronómica y visual: 41 snacks y fingerfoods, cocteles y bebidas. |
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| The famous Explosive OliveS at Tickets Bar in Barcelona. |
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| Queso Manchego air bags designed by the top chefs Albert and Ferran Adria. |
