WEEKEND IN BARCELONA - PART 2

Here is part 1 if you haven't read it yet. 

After lunch, we went to the Sagrada Familia. Because it was quite hot we went to the park behind the church where we had our siesta. After an hour we finally went a little bit around. We shortly took a look at this amazing church. We haven’t got tickets so we couldn’t go inside. We left some things to visit for our next visit to Barcelona. 

Then we went to the pension. Later we decide that we wanna discover our neighborhood a little bit. We find out that in the next street was a festival. 

In the time of our visit to Barcelona was a festival La Mercè. 

La Mercè (which is shorter of La Mare de Déu de la Mercè) is a festival in the Catalan language 'festa major' or 'big party' which it's running every year since 1871, on day Holy Grace 24th of September. 

A few days of celebration where you can see giant papermash (gegants i capgrossos), Castellers shows (human pyramid) and typical dance sardena. 

There is also 'correfoc' ('fire run'). It's about masking in the devil and other dark beings. At this, they lit on different pyrotechnic devices. So it is about pyrotechnic musical which it's made up of water fountains and music at the foot of Montjuïc hill.

Festival ends with huge fireworks and celebration all over the city.

We actually didn't even know about that. It was a very interesting experience to be part of this huge celebration. Unplanned things are many times the best one. 

On Sunday morning, first of all, we decided that we went to Starbucks near Placa de Catalunya. We went there because the market La Boqueria was closed. After our breakfast, we went to the Placa d'Espanya and we walk the same as on Friday evening. We really wanna saw it also at daylight. We went by the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya. It's located in the Palau Nacional of Montjuïc. After a quick look and a lot of token photos, we visited Jardins de Joan Maragall. Because of La Mercè, there was pretty crowded. The park was very beautiful. Huge water fountains, a lot of big Magnolias and other plants took our attention. 

After some rest between trees, we continued our way to the Anella Olímpica de Montjuïc. 

There we looked at where were the summer Olympic Games in 1992. We saw Torre de Comunicacions de Montjuïc and some other objects. 

We continued our way until the Montjuïc Castle. We walked around a little bit. There was a lot of different activities special for kids. From up there is a really nice view of Barcelona's Port. 

Later we went to lunch in a restaurant called Ginos Restorante which was near our accommodation. 

After lunch, we decided that we wanna some rest in the biggest Park in the whole Barcelona Ciutadella Park.  Of course, there were so many people that we hardly found a little piece of free grass to sit down and play some cards. 

Later on, in the afternoon we went to see Casa Batllo and Casa Mila. These two houses were designed by Antoni Gaudí. They really impress us. 

After that, we ent to our room, because it was already very late. 

And unfortunately Monday morning comes and we have to leave Barcelona. It was very difficult to say goodbye, but we are sure that we will come back again very soon. We already miss market La Boqueria and other Barcelona's things. 

-M. 

Some more information:

Accommodation: Pension Airis, address: Carrer de Fontanella 14, 08010 Barcelona Transport: We bought online 3 days Hola Barcelona Travel Card (72h).

Park Güell: tickets

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