| Holiday in Spain, tourist attractions, Sagrada Familia, | | | | If fantastic views are what you like to see, then |
| fantastic views, Montjuic, Olympic Stadium, Antoni | | | | don’t miss out on going to Montjuic. This is a hill, |
| Gaudi, Parc Guell, much loved park, favourite places, | | | | but that description doesn’t do it justice when |
| Barcelona flights, airports, flight times, attractive | | | | you finally get there. The views are nothing short of |
| venue, short break, annual holiday | | | | spectacular, and if you don’t fancy walking up to |
| Any holiday in Spain should build in at least a day or | | | | the top you can get the cable car instead. |
| two in Barcelona. Its location on the eastern coast of | | | | If you do opt for the walk up, there is a park you |
| Spain means that it can offer both city based and | | | | can stop to rest in. If you saw the 1992 Barcelona |
| coastal based activities. In fact, you could happily | | | | Olympics you will also no doubt recognise some of |
| spend your whole holiday here, as many people do | | | | the other buildings on Montjuic, including the Olympic |
| each year. | | | | Stadium itself. |
| There are several hugely popular tourist attractions in | | | | While Antoni Gaudi was overseeing the building of the |
| the city, but one of the best has to be the Sagrada | | | | Sagrada Familia, he was also creating the Parc Guell. It |
| Familia. This is a church, but the reason why it is so | | | | was originally intended to be a site full of buildings, |
| popular is that it has yet to be finished. | | | | but when that failed it became the much loved park |
| This adds an extra degree of fascination, because it | | | | it is today. In that respect it could be said it was not |
| has already been in construction for some 127 years! | | | | a failure at all. |
| The original architect, Francisco de Paula del Villar, | | | | It is a very quirky park though, with mosaic statues, |
| handed the responsibility for the church and its | | | | ornate staircases and much more besides to enjoy. |
| construction over to the famous architect Antoni | | | | There is nothing else quite like it in Barcelona, and |
| Gaudi in 1883, just 12 months after the building | | | | most visitors agree that it should be on |
| process began. | | | | everyone’s list of favourite places to see in the |
| He made a huge amount of changes, and only a | | | | city. |
| fraction of the building was completed when he died | | | | Barcelona flights are easily caught from many airports |
| 43 years later. Perhaps fittingly he is buried in the | | | | and the flight times from across Europe are |
| crypt of the church he helped to design. | | | | favourable. All of which makes Barcelona an |
| It is estimated that we’ll have to wait another | | | | attractive venue for a short break or annual holiday |
| 30 years or so before we can see the finished result, | | | | at any time of the year. |
| but even the work in progress is well worth seeing. | | | | |