Barcelona Spain

Barcelona is a beautiful city, long wide avenues for shopping and eating and home to the original works by Antoni Gaudi.

Barcelona FC offical store

Takeaway sausage and cheese

Mercat de la Boquerie - a food market off La Rambla where a terrorist in 2017 plowed through the people walking.

Mirador Colom -  dedicated to Columbus on the harbour 

La Pedrera at night

Churros with chocolate

Fantastic tapas bar Cervecería Catalan - the que was long and the food fast once seated.
Tasty morsels were constantly being made to deliver to tables.  

Paella restaurant Xativa in Gracia with huge sangria's

Casa Fuster 1908 converted in to hotel at the top of  Passeig de Gràcia

Park Guell designed by Antoni Gaudi in the early 1900's,
he had a controversial career some thinking his architecture at the time too radical ,
an eccentric obsessed with his work who was run over by a tram and died. 
Now of course his iconic organic inspired work is seen as genius.

Gaudi's dragon

Mosaic seating on the famous terrace 

Joan Miro gallery in Montjuic park

The talking sculptures!

Oren doing his fashion shoot pose!

Alex checking out the sound art

The Catalan flag symbolising an independent state from the rest of Spain 

- controversial as a number of politicians have been imprisoned for the illegal referendum.

La Pedrera - Gaudi's organic forms

Casa Batllo 1904- Gaudi's Naturalist work with beautiful mosaics. 

In Casa Batllo's drawing room for a period photo shoot.

Montserrat a hill top Basilica

The black Virgin Mary, traditionally you touch the foot and orb in her hand for a blessing.

Lighting candles

Beautiful entrance to the Basilica Sagrada Familia - Gaudi's last piece when he
died,  it is still being constructed due to be completed by 2026.

Front door of the basilica

Mosaic detail on the Sagrada Familia

Stained glass light filters in.

The photo's don't capture how beautiful the stained glass is.