On our way to Basque country to visit friends Mara and Mikel we drove to the mountaintop monastery of Montserrat and heard the boys' choir and received the blessings of the Black Madonna.
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| Miro Museum |
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| Barcelona Cathedral of the Holy Cross |
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| Gaudi's fabulous La Sagrada Familia |
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| Climbing around one of the many towers |
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| Gaudi was inspired by Nature's architecture, particularly trees |
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| We were fortunate to have the afternoon sun casting rainbow light from the stained glass |
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| Tricia-Rose with the model of the completed cathedral (due to be finished in 2026) |
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| Gaudi used gravity to create parabolic engineering designs |
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| Plaça Sant Felip Neri shows the scars of two bombs dropped by Franco's planes killing 30 children sheltering in the convent. Today, the plaza is used as a football playground by local kids. |
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| Self-portrait of a 14-year-old Pablo Picasso |
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| The Museo Picasso |
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| The mountain monastery of Montserrat |
