On Thursday 10 we decided to visit Montserrat. We rented a car for the two couples we had that purpose and put the GPS, address Monistrol, to come up with the air, but in the end was closed and up on the rack.
Montserrat Monastery has its origin in a small church, Santa Maria, documented as early as 888. It is not anything, but the Romanesque church which replaced it. The current basilica is Renaissance, the sixteenth century. It is a Benedictine monastery that not only is credited with its history and dedication to the Moreneta, but Catalan is a center of the first magnitude. It is, par excellence, the most prestigious place and devotion of the Catalan people, being also known place of pilgrimage throughout the world. Its abbots have always had great weight in the religious, political and Catalan society. In my younger days I made the journey on foot from Vallvidrera to Montserrat, 60 miles walk, which only support from the freshness of the 18 years.
We were fortunate to be able to listen live to the choir of Montserrat in the interior of the basilica, so it was crowded. Children's voices, angelic tone, which captivated the audience. Having spent the clubhouse different pictures of the Virgin and the chapel attached to his back, which was splendid. Several times I visited Montserrat and continues to fascinate me, not only for the monastery, but the mountain itself, with its special morphology, magic and all the conglomerate has been formed around them. We walked around admiring the views and buildings. The sun's rays winked from the back of the mountain, in a game of escape and fascinating presence, while people peered at the viewpoints trying to be, caught in the pupil, the striking image he observed.
We had the courage to go to St. Joan or call down to the Holy Cave on the funicular, we did not force the timid to the slopes and excessive mechanical device that won. We comply with seeing as they passed the cabins on a dual track in the middle of the journey. Photos and more photos and goodbye until another day.
On Friday and Saturday was spent in Barcelona. Little time for much else. We try to fit a schedule as soon as available. On Friday we started to visit Holy Family is shown, as always, surprisingly powerful. A huge queue made us give up going to those who already had visited and walked around, while those interested went inside.
After lunch we move to Park Guell, that doing so long since I visited it I was pleasantly surprised. Antonio Gaudí was commissioned by Count Güell and was built between 1900 and 1914. They will not be my clumsy words that detract you, so rather than talk about it I refer to photos and a personal visit to surprising beauty such originality and Gaudi. The square offers a magnificent and unprecedented view of Barcelona. My friends, who Catalonia did not know they were happy, but tired from walking. Following
Gaudí's work, although we arrived early to get to see inside, see the Casa Batllo. This work, done by Gaudi at the beginning of last century, follows a normal remodeling a home, that he asked the industrial Batlló Gaudi and that was controversial and startling in its originality within modernism. The balconies look like fragments of skulls with the openings of the eyes and nose. The columns of the podium on the first floor seem human bones.
Across the Paseo de Gracia is one of the most significant Antonio Gaudi, Casa Mila, popularly known as La Pedrera. The building, so innovative, is a typical Gaudi's work in which, from what I read, the geometric lines are just straight form curved planes, and we do not understand, given my limited knowledge of architecture. It was built between 1906 and 1910 in Art Nouveau style. It declared World Heritage by UNESCO. Noteworthy is the beauty of wrought iron balconies, which simulate vines.
The tour culminates with a view of the Ramblas, La Boqueria (market of San Jose), a beer at the Royal Plaza and dinner at C /. Carmen, El Rincon de Aragon ... and sleep until tomorrow.
We spent Saturday visit, fly pen, the National Museum of Catalan Art (MNAC) located at the National Palace (or the United Nations, will never know exactly, although it was built for the exhibition of 1929) Montjuic. It takes time, long enough to complete your visit. The MNAC embraces all the arts (sculpture, painting, art objects, drawings, prints, posters, photography and coinage) and has the task of explaining the general history of Catalan art from the Romanesque period to mid-twentieth century . I surprised the content, exhibits, and architecture of the continent. From there we marched
a stroll through the Gothic Quarter with the cathedral façade scaffold closed, we went via Carrer Bisbe, to Plaça Sant Jaume, to see the facades of City Hall and the Generalitat. Luckily we had and found the City Hall doors open for visits. Apparently this circumstance only four days a year and in this case was Santa Eulalia, the former patron saint of Barcelona is one of those days. Too bad we could not see the crypt of Santa Eulalia in the cathedral. From there, wander through the Gothic Quarter, streets and squares, arriving at Santa Maria del Mar, the cathedral of the sea called the Falcones novel.
Next door is Al Fossar de les Moreres, with an inscription in Catalan, which says: "Fossar of them buried cap Moreres s'hi no traitor, fins l'perdent nostres flag will honor l'urn." In Castilian is: In the Fosar of them Moreres not buried any traitor, even losing our flags will honor the urn. Become a cemetery adjacent to the church of Santa Maria del Mar from the twelfth century, is famous because it was buried the remains of the Catalan patriots who defended the city of Barcelona against French troops supported Felipe V at the end of war of succession, as they had signed a pact to defend the interests of the Archduke Charles of Austria, together with the English, who left them at the feet of horses.
As I read, because you are not skilled in Catalan history or anywhere else, when Britain signed the Treaty of Utrecht, Barcelona left, leaving his fate and determined to continue the war, so that the troops of Philip V besieged the city, but, given the difficulty required the help of his grandfather Louis XIV of France to submission, he commanded the Marshal Duke of Berwick in front of more troops. After long months of siege, I have seen it written that eleven months was the capitulation of the city on September 11, 1714, which was confusing, and Rafael de Casanova, Minister in Cap, was presumed dead but escaped wounded being executed other so-called heroes of this war and buried in that place. The war was won by supporters of Philip V, repealing all rights and claims to the Decree of Nueva Planta, which centralized the government and let if effect Catalan laws and charters, on par with all other kingdoms supported the Archduke Charles of Austria, except the Aran Valley, leaving all subject to the administrative system Castilian. Today, the plaza is a place where, every September 11, commemorates the National Day of Catalonia and is a tribute to defenders of the city, killed and buried in this place. Not for Rafael de Casanova, because this is buried in the church of Sant Baldiri Sant Boi, as he died in 1743 in this town where he lived as a lawyer as I have understood.
After this little trip through history, we ride, too, for the port area and we are ready to take the train back to Salou for the dinner. Our thanks to Antonio and Carmen and Michael and Magda for their hospitality and company.
Sunday was holiday, to visit my brother, who lives in Barcelona, \u200b\u200bSalou ride and meal preparation and home.
End of my story and I urge you to visit this wonderful land, which is Catalan, and meet its people to break stereotypes and to feel closer to them. Vale worthwhile. In any case, I leave fifty photos more for the careful to observe delayed.
Montserrat Monastery has its origin in a small church, Santa Maria, documented as early as 888. It is not anything, but the Romanesque church which replaced it. The current basilica is Renaissance, the sixteenth century. It is a Benedictine monastery that not only is credited with its history and dedication to the Moreneta, but Catalan is a center of the first magnitude. It is, par excellence, the most prestigious place and devotion of the Catalan people, being also known place of pilgrimage throughout the world. Its abbots have always had great weight in the religious, political and Catalan society. In my younger days I made the journey on foot from Vallvidrera to Montserrat, 60 miles walk, which only support from the freshness of the 18 years.
We were fortunate to be able to listen live to the choir of Montserrat in the interior of the basilica, so it was crowded. Children's voices, angelic tone, which captivated the audience. Having spent the clubhouse different pictures of the Virgin and the chapel attached to his back, which was splendid. Several times I visited Montserrat and continues to fascinate me, not only for the monastery, but the mountain itself, with its special morphology, magic and all the conglomerate has been formed around them. We walked around admiring the views and buildings. The sun's rays winked from the back of the mountain, in a game of escape and fascinating presence, while people peered at the viewpoints trying to be, caught in the pupil, the striking image he observed.
We had the courage to go to St. Joan or call down to the Holy Cave on the funicular, we did not force the timid to the slopes and excessive mechanical device that won. We comply with seeing as they passed the cabins on a dual track in the middle of the journey. Photos and more photos and goodbye until another day.
On Friday and Saturday was spent in Barcelona. Little time for much else. We try to fit a schedule as soon as available. On Friday we started to visit Holy Family is shown, as always, surprisingly powerful. A huge queue made us give up going to those who already had visited and walked around, while those interested went inside.
After lunch we move to Park Guell, that doing so long since I visited it I was pleasantly surprised. Antonio Gaudí was commissioned by Count Güell and was built between 1900 and 1914. They will not be my clumsy words that detract you, so rather than talk about it I refer to photos and a personal visit to surprising beauty such originality and Gaudi. The square offers a magnificent and unprecedented view of Barcelona. My friends, who Catalonia did not know they were happy, but tired from walking. Following
Gaudí's work, although we arrived early to get to see inside, see the Casa Batllo. This work, done by Gaudi at the beginning of last century, follows a normal remodeling a home, that he asked the industrial Batlló Gaudi and that was controversial and startling in its originality within modernism. The balconies look like fragments of skulls with the openings of the eyes and nose. The columns of the podium on the first floor seem human bones.
Across the Paseo de Gracia is one of the most significant Antonio Gaudi, Casa Mila, popularly known as La Pedrera. The building, so innovative, is a typical Gaudi's work in which, from what I read, the geometric lines are just straight form curved planes, and we do not understand, given my limited knowledge of architecture. It was built between 1906 and 1910 in Art Nouveau style. It declared World Heritage by UNESCO. Noteworthy is the beauty of wrought iron balconies, which simulate vines.
The tour culminates with a view of the Ramblas, La Boqueria (market of San Jose), a beer at the Royal Plaza and dinner at C /. Carmen, El Rincon de Aragon ... and sleep until tomorrow.
We spent Saturday visit, fly pen, the National Museum of Catalan Art (MNAC) located at the National Palace (or the United Nations, will never know exactly, although it was built for the exhibition of 1929) Montjuic. It takes time, long enough to complete your visit. The MNAC embraces all the arts (sculpture, painting, art objects, drawings, prints, posters, photography and coinage) and has the task of explaining the general history of Catalan art from the Romanesque period to mid-twentieth century . I surprised the content, exhibits, and architecture of the continent. From there we marched
a stroll through the Gothic Quarter with the cathedral façade scaffold closed, we went via Carrer Bisbe, to Plaça Sant Jaume, to see the facades of City Hall and the Generalitat. Luckily we had and found the City Hall doors open for visits. Apparently this circumstance only four days a year and in this case was Santa Eulalia, the former patron saint of Barcelona is one of those days. Too bad we could not see the crypt of Santa Eulalia in the cathedral. From there, wander through the Gothic Quarter, streets and squares, arriving at Santa Maria del Mar, the cathedral of the sea called the Falcones novel.
Next door is Al Fossar de les Moreres, with an inscription in Catalan, which says: "Fossar of them buried cap Moreres s'hi no traitor, fins l'perdent nostres flag will honor l'urn." In Castilian is: In the Fosar of them Moreres not buried any traitor, even losing our flags will honor the urn. Become a cemetery adjacent to the church of Santa Maria del Mar from the twelfth century, is famous because it was buried the remains of the Catalan patriots who defended the city of Barcelona against French troops supported Felipe V at the end of war of succession, as they had signed a pact to defend the interests of the Archduke Charles of Austria, together with the English, who left them at the feet of horses.
As I read, because you are not skilled in Catalan history or anywhere else, when Britain signed the Treaty of Utrecht, Barcelona left, leaving his fate and determined to continue the war, so that the troops of Philip V besieged the city, but, given the difficulty required the help of his grandfather Louis XIV of France to submission, he commanded the Marshal Duke of Berwick in front of more troops. After long months of siege, I have seen it written that eleven months was the capitulation of the city on September 11, 1714, which was confusing, and Rafael de Casanova, Minister in Cap, was presumed dead but escaped wounded being executed other so-called heroes of this war and buried in that place. The war was won by supporters of Philip V, repealing all rights and claims to the Decree of Nueva Planta, which centralized the government and let if effect Catalan laws and charters, on par with all other kingdoms supported the Archduke Charles of Austria, except the Aran Valley, leaving all subject to the administrative system Castilian. Today, the plaza is a place where, every September 11, commemorates the National Day of Catalonia and is a tribute to defenders of the city, killed and buried in this place. Not for Rafael de Casanova, because this is buried in the church of Sant Baldiri Sant Boi, as he died in 1743 in this town where he lived as a lawyer as I have understood.
After this little trip through history, we ride, too, for the port area and we are ready to take the train back to Salou for the dinner. Our thanks to Antonio and Carmen and Michael and Magda for their hospitality and company.
Sunday was holiday, to visit my brother, who lives in Barcelona, \u200b\u200bSalou ride and meal preparation and home.
End of my story and I urge you to visit this wonderful land, which is Catalan, and meet its people to break stereotypes and to feel closer to them. Vale worthwhile. In any case, I leave fifty photos more for the careful to observe delayed.
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