While we experienced the annual Christians and Moors festival in Denia, I didn’t get many good shots. In addition it was mainly a hands off, spectator event. In Barcelona at the Gallery Hotel, we happened to be staying ten minutes by foot from an area that is festival central. Here are shots from a two […]
Mary said either he was a genius or had a serious drug problem. Several of our friends have suggested that both are possible. Barcelona is certainly the city of Gaudi. We didn’t make it to his garden (Parc Guell) but we did visit his apartment building and his house. It certainly doesn’t take a genius […]
This is the last post about La Sagrada Familia. I just wanted to show a couple of shots of the central Crucifix, the floating cross. It is beautiful. In the first shot below it almost looks like it is being drawn up to heaven. What a blessing.
In the last post I introduced La Sagrada Familia and showed a couple of shots of the exterior. It isn’t complete yet, and while impressive, for me it pales in comparison to the interior. When we walked through the main entrance, I felt like the air had been sucked out of me. I was in […]
Mary’s number one priority for our trip to Spain was La Sagrada Familia. I asked several times (more than ten) “What do you want to do, what do you want to see.” The answer was always the same. As long as I see La Sagrada Familia I don’t care. We researched this extensively and even […]
This castle has an interesting history. El Castell de Guadalest was started in the early thirteenth century. In 1644, earthquakes destroyed the Castle. In 1748 and 1752, more earthquakes occur, but less important than the earlier ones. During the War of Succession in 1708, the Castle of San Jose suffered a bombing that seriously affected its west […]
One of our best memories of our trip to Denia was Calle Loreto. One night we asked the open ended question of the hotel staffer “Where is the best place to go for dinner.” He was not going to be trapped that easily. There are fifty right answers depending on who asks the question, etc. […]
The Castle in Denia was built in the 11th and 12th centuries. It was only a stone’s throw from our hotel and we enjoy adventures, so we made an afternoon of it. We really enjoyed our time. There is a nice museum at the top which had two important attributes; lots of relics and information […]
Ever since I woke up at o’dark thirty in Milano to get a clear picture of the Duomo back in 2009 I have made it a priority to get some early morning or late evening pictures (it also helps me to justify lugging a tripod 4,500 miles). In Paris it was the Opera, the Eiffel […]
We started our Spanish adventure in a town called Denia. We flew into Barcelona El-Prat airport, collected our rental car (a nice Peugeot cabriolet), plugged in the TomTom (also known as a marriage saver) and headed south. Denia is a small city (about 40K people) which is about 4 1/2 hours south of Barcelona. They […]
