Barcelona - second day

The next morning, September 2nd, we woke up early to get over to La Sagrada Familia before it was really packed. La Sagrada Familia is a huge church designed by Gaudi that has been under construction for almost 100 years and will not be completed until at least 2026. This church does not look like anything else and is very recognizable. Only eight of the proposed 18 towers are done being constructed. We went inside and saw that the large church only really has ceilings and walls with a completely empty interior that was being used as a construction site.

After walking through the church and the Gaudi museum, we took the metro to Park Guell, which was also deigned by Gaudi. As you can tell, Gaudi is extremely popular in Barcelona. To reach the park we had to climb a very steep street and then take about four escalators to the top. From up here you could see the La Sagrada Familia under construction (pictured above to the right) and also the Torre Agbar tower, by Jean Nouvel.

There was a covered walkway made of stone inside the park that I really liked. At the bottom of this park there is a large staircase with a lizard sculpture in the middle called the "drac" where we saw about 15 people trying to take a picture with it at once so John jumped in there also. Later that day we went back to the Barcelona Pavilion to see it at in late afternoon before eating dinner and then going to bed.