Day 32 - Barcelona Day 3

Gaudi and Modernista day! Start off with early tickets to Sagrada Familia. We then took a subway ride out to El Recine Modernista de Sant Pau which is a highly decorated Art Nouveau complex built built and functioning as a hospital between 1920 and 2009 when it was closed and converted to other uses. It could be very interesting to tour, but we ran out of time to see anything other than façade. We made our way to Park Guell as we had entry tickets for 1245 hrs. Grabbed Subway on the way. After Parc Guell, we made our way down to the top end of Passeig da Gracia in the Eixample district and slowly made our way down viewing the various Modernista facades along the way.

Street ended out at Placa Catalunya, so we walked again through the El Born district which we had enjoyed the first day and stumbled into the old cast iron El Born market building which was the main vegetable market for a century. It is now a very interesting and informative open-air archaeological site tracing the history of this La Ribera district developed from draining land outside the city walls, then it's role as a fort in the invasion of Barcelona by the Spanish in 1713.Read more