My first time in Barcelona…as a tourist

After I got married we had a little week’s honeymoon, in BARCELONA.

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My husband has never been there, so we made a list of places we could visit in a week in a tourist city like Barcelona.

We got to a charming hotel I recommend, it’s practically an apartment and you do everything independently through a code, and the best part? it was in the shell of the city, so if you want to know, the name is Casa Boutique.

By the way, my phone roaming was not working in Spain, I was driving mad, so I stuck to my husband’s hotspot for the rest of our trip.

After we got lost getting to the door of our hotel, we slept pleasantly and woke up for the first adventure of the day: La Sagrada Familia or in English Expiatory Temple of the Holy Family

La Sagrada Familia has always left me without breath. La Sagrada Familia was designed by Gaudì, a famous architect, and it’s not finished yet, in fact, coming from the front of the park, it looks kind of modern if you go around to the back, you’ll have a better view of the oldest part.

The project, originally envisioned by Francisco de Paula del Villar, was funded by donations to encourage Christianity in Barcelona, which was becoming increasingly secular. In 1883 Gaudí took over as chief architect, and the project would occupy him throughout the rest of his career. In his drawings and models for the church, Gaudí equilibrated the original Neo-Gothic design into a structure designed to stand on its own without internal bracing or external buttressing. The result, modified beyond recognition, was a complexly symbolic forest of helicoidal piers, hyperboloid vaults and sidewalls, and a hyperbolic paraboloid roof. It was to be Gaudí’s Expressionist vision of a 20th-century cathedral, where he would use visual symbolism to express the many mysteries of the Christian faith.

The works of Gaudí, including the Nativity facade and the crypt of the Sagrada Família, were designated as a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1984.

I won’t reveal further details about it, otherwise, I’ll be talking for hours. We got inside, and I was so enchanted by the details of the altar, the colourful windows, and the columns that looked like trees. There was a couple getting married on the back floor, how romantic, getting married in a gothic place.

After our exploration around the insides, we had to queue to go to the tower of passion, not passion in a carnal way, don’t get me wrong, I mean the passion of Jesus.

The way to get to one of the three towers is through an elevator, and then many many stairs, it’s worth it after you get to the top to see the panorama around the Sagrada Familia, what we didn’t expect was listening to the bell really closed while going all the way down.

We finished the day eating a delicious paella with sangria as God commanded.