Best places: Monuments in Barcelona, Spain

14th-century, Gothic-style church with soaring columns & 3 naves, plus grand stained glass windows.

Classical archway built as the main entrance to the Universal Exhibition hosted by the city in 1888.

Park created in late 1800s, with zoo, boating lake, ornate museums and lush walking trails.

Iconic pair of towers built in the 1920s with a street between them & a design inspired by Venice.

Ornate 1888 Corinthian column topped with a statue of Christopher Columbus pointing toward America.

😠 If you want to enter you will have to go to the ticket office and give €4 (four) to the man selling the tickets. I don't know how the passage in which Jesus throws the merchants out of the temple came to mind... it seems that it no longer affects them. What's more, we are paying the church, faithful...

👍👍 Monument to Jacinte Verdaguer in Mossen Square by Jacinte Verdaguer in Barcelona. He was a Catalan/Spanish writer, considered one of the greatest poets of Catalan literature and a prominent literary figure, of the cultural revival movement of the late Romantic era.

👍👍 On July 14, 1936, coinciding with the French national holiday, the monument 'Als voluntaris catalans', fallen in the Great War, by the sculptor Josep Clarà, was inaugurated in the Parc de la Ciutadella. The history of sculpture, a nude in bronze of a young man with arms raised, it goes back to 1918...

1914 art nouveau bullring, now used for concerts & shows, with a bullfighting history museum inside.

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👍👍 Wonderful avenue, packed with Gaudi's masterpieces as well as Illa de la Discordia, city block of four of Barcelona's most famous Modernista houses. Architectural paradise. Magnificent! I ❤Barcelona!

👍👍 THE PORTAL OF STA. MADRONA is the only door in the old medieval wall of Barcelona that is preserved. It can be visited next to the GARDENS OF THE BALUARD (located at the top of the portal) on the 1st. 3rd. and 4th Sunday of each month, from 11 am to 2 pm. The association LA CORONELA performs a chan...

👍👍 José Luis Sert, J.B. Subirana and J. Torres Clave. 1932-36. GATCPAC Fund S-shaped worker housing with Pilotis structure. Greca that leaves room for equipment that was postulated as a pattern to begin the construction of the expansion. At height and with a corridor street to save costs on stairs and...

👍 Palau Centelles was built by Lluís de Centelles between the end of the 15th century and the beginning of the 16th, on top of an earlier manor house from the 13th century. It was built with ashlar stones taken from the mountain of Montjuïc. This palace was the residence of the Centelles family, relat...