Nearly everyone is familiar with the iconic towers of Antonio Gaudi’s Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, seen above in a night view with cranes. So, I thought I’d offer a few clipped views of what you see when you turn your eyes away from the high ground,…
Every year, several Barcelona neighborhoods have summer festivals, drawing visitors from all over the city, and beyond. Festa Major de Gràcia is the biggest; it’s an annual 5-day street party that draws more than 1.5 million each year….
Customers contemplate the bounty of the sea in Barcelona’s famous Bouqueria Market. One of Europe’s oldest and largest indoor market halls (and one of over 20 in Barcelona), this is a mecca for both wholesale and retail buyers and for the…
BLOGS Sept. 5, 2013 PHeymont Barcelona’s “Other Architect” Feb. 18, 2014 PHeymont The Alcazar of Jerez: A Window into History Feb. 20, 2014 PHeymont Six…
Girona, Spain is an ancient city northeast of Barcelona, with a fascinating medieval core and a walker’s treasure: The Passeig de la Muralla. The old city walls are among the most complete and best-preserved in Spain, and have been turned into…
Being perpetually surrounded by the ordinary things of everyday life made me a bit unprepared for the reaction I had when I experienced my first man-made marvel. Never had I felt in awe of the “genius” behind a calculator, or the…
Now a restaurant, this late 19th-century example of Moderniste style was built as a convent for straying young women of Barcelona’s wealthy industrialist class. It’s on Tibidado Avenue, in a neighborhood filled with mansions the young women…
The Gumbo gang did a number on this one: the answer came in pieces from Still Country Photo who placed it in Barcelona, Jonathan L who suggested Spain or Catalonia, and from PortMoresby who identified it as the sculpture Homentage a la…
In a recent Gumbo blog , Jonathan L. pointed out that travelers (and locals) need a place to rest from time to time while visiting or going about daily life…and part of the need is what’s called—logically—street furniture.
As several Gumbo Guessers quickly realized, Gumbo was visiting the Lower Depths, the sine qua non of modern society, the sewer system. This particular sewer is in Paris, and it runs through the Museum des Egouts—yes, the Sewer Museum.
Nearly everyone is familiar with the iconic towers of Antonio Gaudi’s Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, seen above in a night view with cranes. So, I thought I’d offer a few clipped views of what you see when you turn your eyes away from the high ground,…
Every year, several Barcelona neighborhoods have summer festivals, drawing visitors from all over the city, and beyond. Festa Major de Gràcia is the biggest; it’s an annual 5-day street party that draws more than 1.5 million each year….
Customers contemplate the bounty of the sea in Barcelona’s famous Bouqueria Market. One of Europe’s oldest and largest indoor market halls (and one of over 20 in Barcelona), this is a mecca for both wholesale and retail buyers and for the…
BLOGS Sept. 5, 2013 PHeymont Barcelona’s “Other Architect” Feb. 18, 2014 PHeymont The Alcazar of Jerez: A Window into History Feb. 20, 2014 PHeymont Six…
Girona, Spain is an ancient city northeast of Barcelona, with a fascinating medieval core and a walker’s treasure: The Passeig de la Muralla. The old city walls are among the most complete and best-preserved in Spain, and have been turned into…
Being perpetually surrounded by the ordinary things of everyday life made me a bit unprepared for the reaction I had when I experienced my first man-made marvel. Never had I felt in awe of the “genius” behind a calculator, or the…
Now a restaurant, this late 19th-century example of Moderniste style was built as a convent for straying young women of Barcelona’s wealthy industrialist class. It’s on Tibidado Avenue, in a neighborhood filled with mansions the young women…
The Gumbo gang did a number on this one: the answer came in pieces from Still Country Photo who placed it in Barcelona, Jonathan L who suggested Spain or Catalonia, and from PortMoresby who identified it as the sculpture Homentage a la…
In a recent Gumbo blog , Jonathan L. pointed out that travelers (and locals) need a place to rest from time to time while visiting or going about daily life…and part of the need is what’s called—logically—street furniture.
As several Gumbo Guessers quickly realized, Gumbo was visiting the Lower Depths, the sine qua non of modern society, the sewer system. This particular sewer is in Paris, and it runs through the Museum des Egouts—yes, the Sewer Museum.