October 2009 - Land of the Catalans (Part 3)

October 2009 - Land of the Catalans (Part 3)

This the last day of my stay in Barcelona and I went to this place called Montjuïc. I have to sit the subway from the city to this place, Montjuïc is place slightly out of the main city and from this top of the park/hill you can have a spectacular view of the whole of Barcelona. 
Upon reaching the place, I sat the Telefèric de Montjuïc (basically the cable car) and from there I already had a very good view of Barcelona. 


Upon reaching the top, which is this place called the Castell de Montjuïc, it is basically a castle that was previously used by the Catalan King.

Some shots inside the castle

This shows the famous Barcelona Habour 

Going into the Castle Main Square where the King's army used to have their parades



So having visited the castle and I went down the hill and to the other side of the place where in 1992 Barcelona hosted the Olympics and the Games were. 

The stadium inside

Other places in that area which I've forgotten the names (sorry guys cause I'm doing a backlog here)

Finally I arrived another famous place or rather a place to check out, Plaça d'Espanya where there is this music fountain that they showed at night however, I wasn't able to catch it as I had a Barcelona FC match to catch :(



So after dinner, I went back to Camp Nou and the atmosphere was amazing and this is my first European soccer match my last was when Manchester United came to Singapore to do their Asian tour. There are like stores outside the stadium selling all kinds of stuff for the supporters to buy.

Outside the Stadium 

On my way inside to my seat :) *excited*

Players coming out for their warm ups

The atmosphere before the match

Ibrahimovic's goal from the freekick

I was like watching this match and forgotten to take some photos but anyway the final score...

Totally made my money worth with the goal fest, and I ended my first trip out of Ireland. 

What you guys think of Barcelona now when you have seen some of the stuff I posted? I will be stopping my backlog for awhile and will be blogging everyday (if possible) about my Eastern Europe tour that I am currently doing now. So stay tune :) 

October 2009 - Land of the Catalans (Part 2)

October 2009 - Land of the Catalans (Part 2)

Sorry guys for the late post as I was too busy packing my stuff when I was still in Dublin. So glad I left the place and currently in Sofia (Bulgaria). I will update my Eastern Europe trip when I'm done with my Barcelona post.


So back to Barcelona, as mention previously it is a place filled with awesome looking buildings like the Barcelona Cathedral, Sangrada Familia and other buildings that were design by Gaudi (La Pedrera and La Casa Batlló) 


First stop, I went to the Barcelona Cathedral. Some history of the Cathedral; It is built on the site of a Paleo-Christian basilica. Work began on the building during the Romanesque period, but it was finished according to Gothic artistic principles, which was the prevailing style at the time of its completion. Ok let the pictures do the talking...

The little pond inside the front yard of the Cathedral...

I was lucky as there was a choir performance and they sung beautifully...

The pipe organ behind the hall

Next Sangrada Familia, as many have commented in my previous post that it looks like a castle, but it is not. Here are more pictures :) 

The crucifix outside the main door

Interior of the still constructing church

Waited like 2 hours plus to get onto the lift to get up to the top of the church...advise for all of you out there, go early to avoid the crazy queue.

View from the top

Can you spot the penis looking building???

Afterwards, I went to a nearby restaurant to try some Spanish food...

Tapas

Chicken Paella

Then I just roam around the streets and snap pictures of interesting looking buildings...

Casa Batlló

Casa Milà, better known as La Pedrera

I didn't went into the both the above mentioned building cause I was like rushing off to another place and there was a long queue to get into the 2 building and you still have to pay like 15 euros each or something to get in...basically no time and no money...

So stay tune to my final part of the Barcelona trip, meanwhile comment what you think about the buildings...