When a city tour by bus takes FOUR HOURS to complete and requires two separate routes, you know that there is a lot of stuff to do in Barcelona. And it doesn't even stop at all of the tourist locations for us to take pictures of them, it just passes through them so you know what they look like. And it STILL took four hours.
It was nice that they didn't stop specifically for all the monuments though. I think the day tour was nice just to see what exactly we can see in Barcelona. I didn't get a lot of pictures, but from this tour, we know exactly which places we have to visit in the coming few days.
We did see something today though, the beautiful Sagrada Familia, a massively mathematical church in Barcelona, a few hundred years in the making. Even in 1886, the main architect, Antoni Gaudi knew that the church wouldn't be finished during his lifetime, so he meticulously described and modeled what he wanted the church to look like and expected future generations to pick up where he left off. Even today, it still isn't done (it's set to be finished at around 2026), but what has been finished is INCREDIBLE.
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| Yes, just as I suspected. This church is much larger than my monkey. |
The inside of the church had beautiful stain glass windows that made the entire church light up in color. The pillars were intentionally designed to be like fractal trees, complete with a canopy-like roof, and Gaudi put SO MUCH detail and symbolism in every aspect of the church that even I felt more spiritual just by being in it, and I'm not even that religious of a person. It really is a beautiful church, and that's coming from a person that felt nothing when he saw the Notre Dame.
The pictures really don't do it justice, like most of the things in the world that are brilliant, but I took some anyway.
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| I absolutely LOVE the stain glass in here. |
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| More on the multicolored stain glass on the walls. |
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| Everything is so beautiful. |
RFotD: If you look up more pictures of Sagrada Familia online, you'll probably find better shots.
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