I really love St Grada Familia, such a unique cathedral!
Wow… The outside looks like a Beksinski painting.
I got some weird reverse vertigo looking up from the inside when I was there, it was insanely high. Incredible place though.
Just, don’t play the organ while you’re there.
Is it not voiced for it? Last time I checked, they just had a small portable organ instead of a large installed one.
Am I the only one who thinks the outside is really really ugly
Specifically, this is Eixample
The roads in the old city are much more chaotic.
That aerial view is wild.
I grew up in the middle of nowhere USA, in a place where my nearest neighbor was a mile away.
Will images like this ever not give me massive anxiety?
This city was designed in the NES version of SimCity.
it’s a beautiful city, but those crosswalks are so annoying
Why are there two streets running against the grid?
From Cities Skylines experience it’s usually to relieve traffic blocks by providing a direct path to areas/landmarks that have a higher than average traffic load. Not sure why they did it though.
That sounds like a reasonable explanation, but I’d have thought that Barcelona was laid out far before the advent of modern city planning.
This part of Barcelona pretty much was the advent of modern city planning.
Eixample was built in the mid-1800s iirc, and they did put some thought into its construction.
I can’t tell if they are actual streets, pedestrian-only areas, or bus loading/unloading zones. There look to be structures along them that could be market booths or buses.
That’s if you mean the two blocks with the diagonals going through them. If you mean the one in the back that’s slightly off-angle from the grid, my guess for that is that the road existed before the modern city did and wasn’t removed to create the grid. Or it might be a rail line.
What’s up with the blue vs yellow light?
HPS vs LED lamps. LED are blue compared to HPS.
Yeah but why are there two types of lights in one city?
Barcelona isn’t the type of place to do uniform rollouts.
Some cities are replacing HPS with LED. Lamps are changed as they break, or by sections.
New vs old.
City planners: hnnnnnnnnnnnnnggggg
Is this the whole city or just the same poster neighborhood again and again? I can’t imagine the ancients having the same building codes for wage earners as they do now.
This is only Eixample, the entire city does not look like this.
where are the trees?
Anyone else, for a split second, have the wrong perspective and see a weird tower with futuristic space-castle on top of it?
I do now!
detuned saw-wave synth intensifies
Sid Meiers’ Civilization wonder completion vibes intensify.
Looks sick on monochrome e-ink.
I want to go to Barthelona
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April: Barcelona.
Without question, my favorite city of all time. 🥰🔥
