Monday morning we set off to visit Sagrada Familia. But, the line was extremely long, so we decided to put it off until Tuesday morning. There are a couple of photos of the exterior, but there are many, many more that will come with the Tuesday set of photos.
After our aborted attempt to visit Sagrada Familia, we decided to head off to another one of Gaudi’s projects — Parc Guell. It’s a large park filled with structures that are fanciful and playful.
Next we visited the Barcelona Pavilion (for the 1929 expo) by Mies van der Rohe. It was originally demolished after the expo, but in the 1980s there was a movement to have it restored as an excellent exemplar of Mies’ work. My architect/interior designer friends will recognize it will no problem, but for the rest of you, the structure is amazing in its precision and minimalist forms. Mies headed the Bauhaus for several years and then moved to Chicago and created several important works in the US.