Tag: Barcelona
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Our First Tour of Florence
Read more: Our First Tour of FlorenceIf you were living in the heart of the Renaissance where would you be? You guessed it!…. Florence, Italy! After staying in Morocco, we returned to Barcelona and drove to Florence, Italy. While there we stayed in a nice apartment in the perfect location. We were right in the beautiful market called Mercat Central. It was near all…
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The Perfect Spanish Dish!
Read more: The Perfect Spanish Dish!As we are cooking traditional foods in every country, for Spain, we found a cooking class where we learned how to cook a dish called seafood paella (pronounced pie-ye -ya). It was a really neat class and the paella was delicious! There were also other people in the class, about 20 people including our family. We…
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Our Own Gaudi Artwork
Read more: Our Own Gaudi ArtworkAfter seeing all of the artwork with mosaics created by Gaudi, we wanted to try to make our own mosaic art. We found a great place on Trip Advisor called Mosaiccos and decided to have an art class for school that day. Our classmates were from different places around the world including the U.S.A., Greece and Australia. Our…
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Art Around the Streets of Barcelona
Read more: Art Around the Streets of BarcelonaHave you ever been on a street art tour? We went on a street art tour around the Old City and the New City in Barcelona, Spain. There is a lot of art around the streets of Barcelona. Most of them are Gaudi inspired mosaic artworks like the The Head of Barcelona. This artwork is a…
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Good Gaudi!
Read more: Good Gaudi!Who was Antoni Gaudi? Most people know him as the architect of the world famous church the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, Spain. But what many people don’t know are things about his personal life. For instance, did you know Gaudi’s first work was a gas lamp? He created it when he was 23 years old for the…