We started the day by heading to Sagrada Familia. This is one of the most popular things to see
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Sagrada Familia is also by Antoni Gaudi. Construction began in 1882, and it still isn’t finished yet. Gaudi became the architect and created this really ornate and detailed design heavily influenced by Christian symbolism, geometry, and nature. 
Then he died. Eighty years later it’s still being built. I relate the design to a ‘tall tale’ because Gaudi died in 1926 and all of his drawings were lost in 1940, so since then the design has been passed down from generation to generation through word of mouth.
There were a whole bunch of people all around it. The four towers that you see on the façade are part of a total of 18 towers that will be built, two that are almost twice as tall as the existing towers. We walked around the interior perimeter of the church because the rest was filled with scaffolding. It was interesting looking around at the modern construction equipment all around, yet the project began 125 years ago.
After Sagrada Familia, we went to Parc Guell, which is a big park that has great views of the city. There were lots of people all over, and we walked around a while. There is a sculpture of a multicolored lizard (Drac) which 69,000 people absolutely had to have their picture taken with so that back home everyone would believe
them when they said they went to Barcelona.
We took a little nap before heading back to Barcelona Pavilion to sketch like good architecture students are supposed to do. While we were there, several VW 
concept cars were being photographed with the Pavilion in the background. So in a few months when you see a VW ad in a magazine, look closely at the background and you’ll probably see an extremely attractive male nonchalantly grabbing his crotch. We ate a cheap dinner to save room for our pitcher of sangria before calling it a night.
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