Mainly Montjuic - Blogabond

We decided to spend the day on Montjuic, which is a hill overlooking the city. On the way we passed through the extremely touristy Las Ramblas. Just behind it is the Merkat de la Boqueria, which is well worth a visit: fantastic fresh food, fruit, meat, and seafood so fresh it's still moving in some cases. I kind of wished that we had booked a self catering apartment, as with this sort of produce cooking would have been a pleasure.

Las Ramblas itself has to be seen I guess, not exactly high culture, but they do have some nice living statues, well, lots of them.

Eventually they do get boring, but the competition is very high here, so the quality is good.

Montjuic has all sorts of stuff going on. A funicular railway and cable car lead to the top, where there's a castle overlooking the city: it's quite plain, but worth the trip for the view.

Downslope a bit are various other attractions (you can't move in Barcelona without finding things to do or see): there's the Olympic stadium, a botanic gardens (we accidentally sneaked in the back way without paying, after taking an unorthodox route down the hill (straight down, through the trees!)).

I am of course a hippy at heart, so here's me hugging a tree, and some eucalyptus bark (one of my favourite trees.)

There's also an absolutely huge art gallery, the Museu d'Art de Catalunya. It really needs a couple of days to take in, and we were blown away by it. It just has everything, from old church frescoes through medieval paintings to modern art and some Gaudi. We just picked some bits, and decided that we definitely didn't like Miro (who gets his own museum, but honestly I don't get it!)

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martin_b on March 27, 2007 from Barcelona, Spain

from the travel blog: Barcelona

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