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A FABULOUS THREE DAY TOUR OF BARCELONA

You have just three days in which to see as much of Barcelona as you can:  where should you go to get a feeling for the nature of this old Catalan City?  To get a sense of its magnificent cuisine, history and culture?   It's a big call to do this in just three days, but here is an itinerary that will give a taste of the city that is certain to make you eager to make a return visit soon.Day 1:  Gaudi, the Diagonal and GráciaThe North side of Barcelona offers some great restaurants and fabulous shopping, but above all is famed for its modernist architecture by Spain's famous Antoni Gaudí.MorningStarting at Plaza Catalunya in the center of the city, you should head for the Paseo de Gracia where you will find La Pedrera and Casa ...

SAN DIEGO MUSEUMS

The balboa park in San Diego isn't solely the biggest metropolitan city park but also prides itself as home of the not lower than fifteen outstanding museums and that opens a undivided calendar of events. The outcomes are so different that every visitant accepts something for them disregarding of their appreciation. There's a plethora of expositions, concerts, plays about day-to-day in very beautiful backgrounds.The Centro Cultural de la Raza is a cultural arts center that plainly develops, advances, safeguards and learns about Mexican, Chicano Latino and endemic art and culture. The acts are interspersed between dance, music, dramatic art and a few cinema and video sessions. There's special resident group that performs on every second Sunday and art sales along third Sundays.The Japanese Friendship Garden opened up they're doors around 1915 and occupies two acres side ...

DULL BY DESIGN

It had been a fortress, convent, military hospital and prison at different times during its 500-year history. In places the incarcerated had carved their names into the stone, each letter as clear as the day it had been engraved during the height of the Spanish Civil War. Now, though, it was a hotel for transient visitors to a quiet corner of provincial Spain – as culturally different from the crowded beaches of the Costa del Sol as it is possible to be. Not too long before I had stayed overnight in a very different type of hotel – modernist and design-led, it was the antithesis of the ancient structure in almost every way. Only in that they were both spotlessly clean and impeccably staffed could any parallels be drawn. The contemporary version might well have littered ...
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