LANDMARKS GAUDI TRENCADIS+Victor Molero

LANDMARKS SAGRADA FAMILIA+JOAN LLUCIÀ

La Sagrada Familia is one of Gaudi's most famous works in Barcelona.
It's a giant temple that has been under construction since 1882 and which is still not completed.

Today new construction materials are being used which, some feel,Gaudi himself would not have used.

After Gaudí's death in 1926( he was overrun by a tram), construction slowed dramatically due to a lack of money and the civil war.

Even though the Sagrada Familia isn' t finished, the church is well worth a visit.You can visit the crypt were Gaudí is buried. A museum tells the story of this great architect and the history of the church.

The Church will have three grand façades: the Nativity façade to the East,the Glory façade to the South and the Passion façade to the West.

LANDMARKS The Agbar Tower+Noemí Haro

The Agbar Tower is the latest symbol to mark the Barcelona skyline. It is an emblematic building,competing in height with the two towers in the Olimpic Port.
The tower is the work of French architect Jean Nouvel, measures 142 metres in height and consists of 35 floors and 4 subterranean levels.
It is Covered with a facade of glass and over 4,400 windows.
The tower’s appearance is so radically different from the rest of the buildings in the city.

On the front there is about 4,000 light devices that use LED technology and to create images around the perimeter cylindrical.

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Landmarks Font de Montjuic+Joan Llucià

The Magic Fountain of Montjuic,is located in the Avenida Maria Cristina, Montjuic (Barcelona).The magic fountain of Montjuïc's first performance was on May 19 of 1929.Over 3000 workers were commissioned to work on the project and less than 1 year later the magic fountain was born.The magic fountain is a spectacular display of colour, light, motion, music and water acrobatics.The magic fountain is a "must see" when you come to Barcelona and highly recommended.

See in this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG_agcGF14g&NR=1&feature=fvwp
Metro: (Green Line, L3) and (Red Line, L1) "España"
Time:Fridays and Saturdays music sessions: 19:00 19:30 20:00 20:30
Closed: The magic fountain does not operate on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday´s throughout the year.
Entrance cost: Free

Typical Catalan The Giants

THE GIANTS OF CATALONIA




The giants are figures, usually they are queen or moor and a princess. A lot of Catalan cities villages have their own giants. Giants are figures consisting in a puppet of big dimensions made in wood and carton. Their origins are unknown and they are traditional in several European countries.
In Catalonia, the oldest documents about them are from the 14th century in relation of the procession of the feast of Corpus Christi in Barcelona (David, Goliath and St. Christophorus). It their origins they were represented by a man disguised. The giant woman didn’t appear until the 16th century, and probably this was the reason why the giant-men are warriors and the giant-women are ladies dressed at the fashion of that epoch.

Famous Person Juan Pablo García

Ferran Adriá Acosta was born on 14th may 1962 in Hospitalet of Llobregat, Barcelona.
He's a famous cook and was for some years one of the bests cookers of the world.
He's the owner of a famous restaurant ,El Bulli. Located in Cala Montjoi (Girona).

In el Bulli we can see working 40 people. His restaurant has been elected for many years one of the bests restaurants in the world and the magazine Times says Ferran Adrià is in the list of one of the 100 peope with more influence in the world.

He's considered an artist of cookery!He introduced a new techniques artistically.
One of his cooking techniques is the presentation,the use of highly innovative dishes and utensils.


Here we can see one plat of this master of cook!