Spain, a later period Author**: Start over Five years ago I was in Spain and spent only five days in the small towns of Mijas and Ronda. Mijas is known as the white town and is located in the south of Andalusia, Spain. The town is built on the side of the mountains, facing the Mediterranean, with rows of white cottages scattered on the winding streets, flowers blooming from the mountains to the windowsills of every house, and a cup of coffee can be drunk from morning to sunset, and you don't want to go home. Ronda, on the other hand, is a town built on a cliff, standing in a historic fortress city with a panoramic view of mountains, waters, and canyons.
Spain, there will be a period laterOn the return to Shanghai over the Mediterranean, I thought goodbye to the Spanish Tract, and five years later I did not expect to step into this familiar and unfamiliar country again. I was in the Spanish port city of Barcelona, and I was actually lying on a cruise bed admiring the sights of Barcelona – taken during the day**. Barcelona, a catchy city name! Las Ramblas is the city's liveliest street, stretching from Plaça Catalunya in the north with its intriguing sculptures to the Plaza de la Paix de la Paix in the south, with its monument to Columbus.
European classical architecture and square sculpture has always been a tourist attraction in China's overseas travel, China has no shortage of city squares, but there are few decent urban sculptures, China is a country without urban sculpture tradition. Chinese people are no strangers to pedestrian streets, there are large and medium-sized cities in China, Beijing has Wangfujing, Shanghai in Nanjing Road, Guangzhou to go up and down.
9. Walking on Chunxi Road in Chengdu, the pedestrian street is synonymous with the bustling commercial street in my country, but the Rambla pedestrian street has given me a beautiful experience beyond cognition. There are no brightly lit shops on either side of the street, and there is no shouting of distractions, but the city's rich artistic atmosphere is felt.
The buildings on both sides of the pedestrian street have different styles, and the colors of the facades are contrasting, and the street lamps have the glorious atmosphere of ancient Europe. The number of flower shops and coffee shops is similar, a situation that is rare in the countries I have traveled before. Sitting in a coffee shop, drinking a cup of cappuccino, beautiful women holding flowers, and cool men smoking cigars pass by in front of your eyes, as if watching them walk T steps, Spaniards have this innate temperament, and appreciating performance art performances is another unique cultural experience of Las Ramblas.
Street graffiti, which is commonplace in the West, is about to evolve into a Western culture and exist in the streets and alleys. Spanish graffiti is much more elegant than in the United States and Italy, and some of it can be seen as a unique design of street decoration. I am convinced that graffiti works, which are regarded as smoky miasma in China, will sooner or later appear on the streets of cities, and that itinerant singers were once illegal in our country.
In my country, I have never encountered the embarrassment of not being able to find a toilet, but this is a problem in European travel - there are few toilets and fees. Public toilets in the Colosseum area charge 12 euros, you know that a cup of Italian espresso is also 15 euros. There is a place on the Rambla pedestrian street called la
The Farmers' Market in Boqueria is said to be one of the largest, oldest and most authentic farmers' markets in Europe.
Walking into this market, you will understand that Chinese have no problems living in Barcelona, and you can buy all the ingredients you want to buy, such as vegetables and fruits, fish and seafood, cheese and nuts, and various pickled products. Spain is a veritable kingdom of olives, with dozens of colorful olives, and Spanish ham, which looks like a wax product, can be eaten raw. I used the toilet in this farmer's market, it cost 1 euro, ** it was normal, and the indoor hygiene was passable, but the urinal was installed too high, and the height was 1It is extremely embarrassing for men under 8 meters to pee.
It's late at night, and the cruise ship tears through the sea and makes a buzzing sound. The sleepiness hasn't come up yet, so I continue to watch ** on the bed, wow, why did the Sagrada Familia take so many photos! Because it's a landmark in Barcelona? The unique architecture and popularity of Antonio Gaudí attract countless tourists to participate in a feast of the world. When you arrive in Barcelona, you will never miss the Sagrada Familia, which is the same feeling as if you walk into the Louvre Museum in France and will not miss Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa".
I was blown away by the dazzling exterior structure of the cathedral, and it was a pity that the tallest church in the world did not convince me. I don't know how many people can really understand this cathedral, but I don't understand it anyway. In my opinion, it's more like a giant castle in a fairy tale. What are the lifelike characters on the buildings up to? Why is the turtle crushed under a pillar? What do the statues of the dragon and the ox symbolize? What is the meaning of many incomprehensible letters? Why are the window shapes different? What is the reason for the asymmetrical structure of the façade? These questions are immersed in a long story that has not been told for 140 years.
In front of the cathedral that has not yet been completed, I saw three groups of elementary school students crowded into the crowd under the leadership of the teacher, which reminded me of the scene of reading the Dream of Red Mansions in elementary school, and finally closing the book because I couldn't read a few chapters. I circled around the Sagrada Familia and left. I accidentally found that the civil buildings around the cathedral seem to be easier to read, each building is an independent excellent work, I don't know when they were born, and of course I don't understand what they have to do with the great architecture of the cathedral, I found that the city of Barcelona is like an open-air architectural museum, each building has some element for you to stop and savor, presumably Spain is rich in art designers and excellent architects.
Ordered a cup of ice cream coffee in a dessert house, the ice cream coffee in Barcelona is a spoonful of coffee poured on top of the ice cream ball, the taste is much better than the ice cream ball soaked in a cup of coffee, sitting on an outdoor chair, looking up at the cathedral, extravagant and gorgeous, complex structure, twists and turns in details, high passion, this is indeed a cathedral like no other, not every "normal person" can create a work.
Antonio Gaudí was indeed an ingenious genius, thanks to his idea of smashing the complete mosaics and then collaging them back to the façade of the building, he applied this bold idea to the design of Park Güell, which made him crazy again, and the effect of the corridors, stone benches, columns, ceilings, and walls made of broken mosaics was surprisingly dazzling and impossible to replicate, and the result was another unique work in this world.
If my trip to Spain five years ago left a deep impression on me as a white town, today's trip to Barcelona has given me a more comprehensive view of Spain, which is not only a quiet town, but also a country where classic and fashion coexist, a country full of classic architecture.
I fell asleep with this impression in mind, and I was greeted by Marseille, the second largest city in France.