La Boqueria Market. 3) Meats and Seafood
Our final visit to Barcelona's fabulous La Boqueria market focuses on the meats and seafood so popular with Spaniards.
Our final visit to Barcelona's fabulous La Boqueria market focuses on the meats and seafood so popular with Spaniards.
We continue our visit to the fabulous La Boqueria Market in Barcelona, this week looking at some of it's tempting fruits and vegetables.
One of Europe's finest Markets, Barcelona's La Boqueria is a feast for the eyes and senses.
PHeymont finds the lionfish intriguing: its bright colors are quite visible here, but not against corals...and even its shape is hard to define.
Barcelona is enforcing rules on holiday rentals with fines on offending agencies. It's also banning Segways and groups in crowded spaces.
As Catalonia's secession movement continues to grow, discord among secessionist parties may be a roadblock.
Gumbo was visiting Sagrada Familia Schoolhouse. Built more than a century ago to educate the children of the construction workers who were building Gaudi's La Sagrada Familia Cathedral, it is a excellent example of simple yet beautiful design that was the hallmark of much of the Modernisme architectural movement.
Gumbo was visiting on of Gaudi's first home projects, Palau Güell, in Barcelona. See the fine architectural details of this interesting home.
Barcelona is one of the world's great tourist draws, but lately there have been concerns about numbers, and about ways to pay for city services.
Fighting to stay alive, Barcelona's bookstores find new ways to draw customers in, including food, meeting space and tournaments.
Barcelona, and other cities, confront the 'uncomfortable memory' of slave-built fortunes that paid for many of their famous sights.
Despite eras of repression, the Catalan language and a strong feeling toward independence persist in Catalonia and its capital, Barcelona.
Barcelona's signed up to be a veggie-friendly city, and to promote Meat Free Mondays, but the famous jamón and other meats won't disappear.
A new stadium for FC Barcelona, built around the existing field, and a competition for design of a removable retractable roof for Verona's ancient arena.
Beyond the most famous sights and names, Barcelona has a lot more to see and visit. Have a look!