Woke up pretty early this morning to go to the
Picasso Museum. On the way there we stopped at a little breakfast place near the Cathedral of Barcelona, which should look like this:
Instead, it looked like this, because we all need to know that Telefónica is helping to pay for the restoration of the cathedral:
The museum was really good, with not only many original works by Picasso (lots of his more famous works are in the
Picasso Museum in
Paris) but also much of the artwork in his personal collection and many photos of him at work and him arranging paintings and sculptures in his workshop. We had to check our bags there so none of us had cameras, which I think is the sneaky intention of the museum.
After the museum it was on to Parc Güell, a park designed by the artist Antoni Gaudí and built between 1900 and 1914. Originally intended to be a housing complex for the city’s wealthiest residents, only two of the 60 initially planned houses were ever built. It’s located WAY up high on a crazy huge hilltop, a lot like the hills in
San Francisco. Look at the hill we climbed to get there (there were 5 or 6 outdoor escalators to help us out):
He designed a huge public plaza area that looks out over the whole city, plus little pabellones (pavilions) and two houses (one for him, one for Eusebi Güell, who owned the park property) on the park site. Gaudí went overboard on the mosaics here, and they’re amazing, from the upright parts of the benches to the awesome iconic lizard that straddles a fountain to the round mosaics embedded in the ceilings…they’re mesmerizing. Here are photos of the whole plaza, the view from the plaza, the mosaics, the underneath areas which include an area of columns and mosaics and an area that looks like a cave, the interior of Gaudí’s own home, the pabellones, the lizard, and more. Here's a view from the entrance to the park:
These are two of the pavellones by Gaudi. All his stuff looks so fantastical...:
Instead, it looked like this, because we all need to know that Telefónica is helping to pay for the restoration of the cathedral:
The museum was really good, with not only many original works by Picasso (lots of his more famous works are in the 
He designed a huge public plaza area that looks out over the whole city, plus little pabellones (pavilions) and two houses (one for him, one for Eusebi Güell, who owned the park property) on the park site. Gaudí went overboard on the mosaics here, and they’re amazing, from the upright parts of the benches to the awesome iconic lizard that straddles a fountain to the round mosaics embedded in the ceilings…they’re mesmerizing. Here are photos of the whole plaza, the view from the plaza, the mosaics, the underneath areas which include an area of columns and mosaics and an area that looks like a cave, the interior of Gaudí’s own home, the pabellones, the lizard, and more. Here's a view from the entrance to the park:
These are two of the pavellones by Gaudi. All his stuff looks so fantastical...:
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