Natural art with man made art.

Barcelona may not have been my personal favorite, but it still had a lot to offer. Spain as whole has such beautiful architecture, and its all wonderful especially the Parque Guell done by Antonio Gaudi.


Antonio Gaudi was a brilliant artist who combined natural art with man made art. Normally you visit a park thinking you see some pretty flowers, some trees, maybe a pond or a river. You would never walk in and expect to see arches, pillars, domes, and mosaics. At Parque Guell that is exactly what you get. When I saw how he incorporated his art to blend so well with nature I was astonished. I had never seen anything like that before. It felt as if we were in a different world. It was like something out of a fantasy. Technically we were in a fantasy, his fantasy.


Another place we visited was Sagrada Familia. This church is amazing. It was started in 1882, and it is still in progress. The 330 ft. towers are considered local landmarks. Gaudi was considered different and unique because of how he would combine different styles to create one. The church was a mixture of medieval and modern elements. The fact that that it is still unfinished will make that much more unique, because now there will be more modern feel that still follows his pattern.

After seeing these two great pieces by Gaudi, me and some other students decided to go look for a lucky turtle. This turtle was shown in the Disney Channels Cheetah Girls. It is said that if you rub the turtle you will have good luck for a year. So the whole time we are looking for the turtle I’m thinking that its pretty big statue of a turtle. Well it turned out to be a medium size sculpted turtle that was on a wall. It was pretty funny all of us were rubbing the heck out of that turtle. So far nothing really lucky has happened to me so we’ll see if the turtle really works.