In the morning we visited Gaudi's Casa Battlo. This Gauidi's building is located close to the Casa Mila. Its imaginatively colored facade is decorated with wavy, curved balconies. We bought a 16 euro expensive to tour that included the voice tour. At least this tour beat Pompeii tour :) And of course, the building itself was pretty unusual. Girls really loved, while I was skeptical about the functional aspects of the house.
After the Case Battlo we headed to the Picasso museum. On the way, we passed by the Concert hall building, which was magnificent. We decided that we did not have time to go in for a tour. That turned out to be a mistake. The Picasso museum was a complete rip off. There was only one or two famous works, the rest were unknown and quite frankly uninteresting sketches, paintings and pottery.
Pretty disappointed we left to a different part of Barcelona called Montjuic. We took a cab to the Placa d'Espanya and enjoyed the views of the National Museum of Catalunya.
We headed up the hill to the place called Pueblo Espanyol. This mini town features over 100 houses in different architectural styles of Spain. The place turned out be pretty fun to walk around. We wish there was a voice guide for this one :)
Our travel guide proclaimed that Montjuic was a happening place, but we could not find much. Instead we gave up and took a cab to the Columbus monument at the beginning of La Rambla. The walk through this street proved to be unexciting. And so did the market that was suppose to be one of the Europe's best markets.
Yet, in the end of the walk we were rewarded. We found a great place to eat called Troubadour. The place was at 2 Ramla Catalunya, right off the Placa Catalunya. There we took time to enjoy house wine and real paella made with chicken, shrimp and local fish.
We spend the rest of the day walking around Rambla Catalunya. Around 9 we found a nice and tasty cafe called Iustinianus on Corsega 300, right off the Rambla Catalunya. We sipped wine, ate cheese and looked at night Barcelona. It was a perfect place to finish our vacation.
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