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Total entries in this category: Published On: Oct 17, 2003 08:01 |
La Sagrada FamiliaLa
Sagrada Familia is the name of a famous church designed by Gaudi here
in Barcelona. Here is
its website. It looks like it was the inspiration for Dr. Suess. There seems
to currently be a great deal of construction and restoration, but there was a
walkway for the public (for 9 Euros!) which turned out quite entertaining as you
can see from the
pictures. Going up into one of the spires, a spiral staircase winds
up to the beginning of the first spire and then one switches to a staircase that
winds around the hollow spire as it ascends, perhaps, 20 or 30 floors or more.
I'm not sure how high it was, but it was a ways up there. There is only one set
of windows along the extremely narrow spiral staircase, so you can count'em to
see how many turns around it makes. There are bridges between the spires which
is how we get from one to the next. There are arrows telling us that some ways
we must go up or down so that the traffic does not bottleneck. Two slim people
cannot pass each other, so you're kinda stuck with whomever is ahead and behind
you for a good ways, although every now and again there is a balcony or bridge
so people can step around each other if they wish. It was pretty
neat.
Posted: Sat - May 24, 2003 at 11:06 |