Enrico left us to go back to the university for a meeting, and Ross and I struck out on foot for the Barri Gotico, seeing many beautiful buildings along the "Modernist Route", including what is probably the world's most beautiful Starbucks. We wandered for a while, eventually ending up back at another Bus Turistica stop. So we rode the bus to Casa Batlló, one of Gaudí's wonderful creations.
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We had agreed to meet Enrico in the evening at Sagrada Familia, the cathedral designed by Gaudí and still under construction - they expect to finish in another 25-30 years. Judging from the drawings in the museum underneath the church, I will actually like it less when it's finished - a fat central spire towering over the others, topped by a clunky five-pointed cross, may finally push the design over the top. Still, what's there now is wonderful, and I need to go back and look more closely at the myriad exterior details. The forest-like interior reminded me of some of the design in "The Lord of the Rings;" I wonder if some of the film designers' inspiration came from Sagrada Familia.
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