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How to Do Barcelona in Three Days
From Park Güell to La Sagrada Familia cathedral to tapas, here's the perfect three-day weekend in Barcelona.
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Secrets of Barcelona’s Most Beautiful Church: Gaudi's Masterpiece
Finally, after nearly 150 years, Antoni Gaudí’s famous Sagrada Família church in Barcelona is nearing completion. The sprawling Art Nouveau basilica has been under construction since Gaudí took over the project in 1883 — and it’s been another 90 years since he passed away. Gaudí was selected to take over, and he quickly changed up the design, opting for an unconventional cross between Art Nouveau, Gothic, and organic influences. As the years passed, Gaudí became more and more focused on the S
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This Is How Much Time You Waste Standing in Line at Tourist Attractions
Did you ever wonder how much of your vacation you spend waiting to try and see the wonderful attractions you’ve traveled a long way to see? Well GetYourGuide.com did the math so you don’t have to. Here’s the scoop on standing on line at some of the world’s most popular attractions.
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And the Most Talked About Town in Europe Is...
Where’s everyone going in Europe this season? We've got the top 10 cities — plus, the scoop on what to do and where to go in Europe right now
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The Newest Bitcoin Hotspot
“Bitcoin is a currency based on mathematics,” a Calafou bitcoin hacker told Bartlett, explaining the draw. As the movement grows, Calafou has become almost a tourist attraction for bitcoin enthusiasts.
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The Coolest Barcelona Sport You’ve Never Heard of
At the dawn of my year abroad in Barcelona, I started poking around for an extracurricular activity. According to UNESCO, it’s among the “Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity,” and when I look at a fully constructed castell, I’m inclined to agree. The autonomous region of Catalonia has always been disparaged, or outright disenfranchised, by the central Spanish state, especially so during the reign of dictator Francisco Franco, when the language itself was outlawed.
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El Raval: Barcelona's Artsy, Chaotic Core
For over a century, the gritty streets of Barcelona’s El Raval district remained largely a no-go area. The neighborhood got its first landmark building in 1994 when the Contemporary Cultural Center of Barcelona opened on the site of an 1802 almshouse, and a second shortly thereafter with construction of the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, or MACBA, a blindingly white modernist refrigerator by Richard Meier. In the years since, other museums and cultural institutes have followed suit – th
