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Gaudí Top ten Barcelona site
Official Gaudí site

2002 was International Gaudí Year and this official site was built to celebrate the event. On Gaudi, the most interesting sections are the short biography, the "What are his works" (map of locations) and the "Gaudí in images" sections. The latter has scores of great shots by 15 different local photographers.

•We liked: Particularly, the photographs. And this is one of our top ten Barcelona sites.
•Not so hot: The navigation left us confused. Click on the map if you want to visit the individual works (Sagrada Familia, La Pedrera etc…); then use the icons top right.
•Languages: English, Spanish, Catalan, Japanese.

Gaudí's unfinished cathedral
Sagrada Familia
This site used to the sort of site the Sagrada Familia surely warrants, with an excellent interactive photo tour that let you zoom in and out and stuff and probably made you think, "Er, maybe I'll skip climbing up to the top, I feel a bit travel sick already".

Unfortunately, that's gone from the site, which now really doesn't do Guadí's (as yet) unfinished masterpiece justice at all.

•Languages: English, Spanish, Catalan
•We liked: The view from the top of the Sagrada Familia (head for heights required)
•Not so hot: Who ever decided to cut the photo tour?

The one on all the Barcelona postcards
Casa Batlló
The Casa Batlló (Passeig de Gràcia 43) now has a website just about worthy of one of Barcelona's best-known bits of architecture, with information on when you can visit, a potted history, the shop opening hours, plus information on how to go about hiring out some of its 2,500m2 for the office party, a snip at €11,500 for an evening (roof only), according to Metropolitan.

•Languages: English, Spanish, Catalan, French
•We liked: The chimneys...
•Not so hot: The queues to get in

Whistle stop tour
Great buildings of Barcelona
You're on a whistle stop tour of Barcelona? This site gives you very basic information on the Casa Batlló, the Casa Mila, the Colonia Guell, the Parc Guell and the Sagrada Familia... but nowhere else.

•We liked: Some of the images are very good
•Not so hot: Only five great buildings in Barcelona? Why, even the chemists round the corner, now a smart clothes shop (see image, left) merits that title!
•Languages: English

TIME magazine article
Gaudí the man and the work
For those who prefer to get their culture in bite-sized chunks, pre-digested for them by TIME magazine (and I happen to know people that do), this 2002 article will give you a quick bio and the sort of detached critical appraisal of Gaudí that you won't find in the official guides trying to sell you Gaudí and Barcelona as a whole.

•We liked: The comment (on Gaudí's façades) "tortures of the imagination, fetuses in stone, bulbous obscenities"
•Not so hot: It has always vaguely worried us that some of Gaudí's patrons perhaps got the cash for the buildings in morally suspect ways...
•Languages: English

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