the port

Barcelona

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July 17th 2008
Barcelona is a very modern city with a lot of Gaudi architecture, which i hated. On every second house you have an egg or a fruit or something weird. Sagrada Familia is very impressing from far away, as long as you don't see the details it looks impressing because of it's size, but once i came near my first thought was : this must be a joke. It looks like from a comic that has something to do w ... read more

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Spain's powerful world empire of the 16th and 17th centuries ultimately yielded command of the seas to England. Subsequent failure to embrace the mercantile and industrial revolutions caused the country to fall behind Britain, France, and Germany in ... ... read more