Wednesday, April 11, 2012

BARCELONA, SPAIN-VISIT TO LA SAGRADA FAMILIA

A day @ sea ending with a formal night. I won 2 games of Bingo during the day. Yea!!!
Dinner @ Prego with Roseanne and Jerry Levinson (the bridge teachers aboard)
Local show on board-Fantasia Espanola.
Las Ramblas with "living" statue.
Part of the facade of the Church.
La Sagrada Familia.
Nancy and Don in front of the Church.


The Monday after Easter is a holiday in BARCELONA and most everything is closed. We took a cab to see the Church of the Holy Family which is a large Roman Catholic Church designed by architect Antoni Gaudi. At the time of Gaudi's death in 1926, his masterpiece was not nearly finished and is still today a work in progress. 4,000 people a day visit the Sacred Family. (I think they were all there with us!) A ride down Las Ramblas, a tree lined pedestrian boulevard, was fun to see the "local color".
An early show was the local group Fantasia Espanola and was very entertaining with lots of Flamenco dancing.

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