So by now we've realised that free walking tours should not be passed up because 1. you're getting to know the city you're in and 2. it's F-R-E-E, although most of the time people shyly tip at the end out of obligation unless the guide was really really that awesome.
Our god friend Vex had stayed at Equity Point Gothic and told us to do all their tours and their pub crawl too, so we did.
1. Where Picasso first went to art school. The roof caved in recently and due to the huge claims students/parents demanded for injuries the school went bankrupt and closed.
2. 3. 4. 5. Santa Maria del Mar was built in only 55 years which is impressive when you're living in Spanish time when churches usually take over a century to build, and it is the last remaining fully Catalan-gothic church having survived through earthquake and fire.
6. Shitters! The story behind these fun characters starts with your old nativity scene. Over here you've got Mary and Joseph and Jesus and the whole shebang, plus one; a guy shitting. This little guy squats over a freshly expelled turd and just chills with the shepherds and the three wise men and unites all human beings by addressing something that we all have in common; we all shit.
7. The head of a column randomly built into the middle of a roman wall.
8. Barcelona Cathedral.
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