How to spend two days in the central hub of Spain’s Costa del Sol.
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Carefully planning meant we were literally the first in the queue to get into the stunning Casa Batllo by Antonio Gaudí. We raced through the first couple of rooms pretty quickly to have the place to ourselves and then backtracked later to pick up the stuff we'd missed. From Wikipedia : "Casa Batlló is a building restored by Antoni Gaudí and Josep Maria Jujol, built in the year 1877 and remodelled in the years 1905–1907; located at 43, Passeig de Gràcia (passeig is Catalan for promenade or avenue), part of the Illa de la Discòrdia in the Eixample district of Barcelona, Catalonia. The local name for the building is Casa dels ossos (House of Bones), and indeed it does have a visceral, skeletal organic quality. It was originally designed for a middle-class family and situated in a prosperous district of Barcelona. The building looks very remarkable — like everything Gaudí designed, only identifiable as Modernisme or Art Nouveau in the broadest sense. The ground floor, in particular, is rather astonishing with tracery, irregular oval windows and flowing sculpted stone work. It seems that the goal of the designer was to avoid straight lines completely. Much of the façade is decorated with a mosaic made of broken ceramic tiles (trencadís) that starts in shades of golden orange moving into greenish blues. The roof is arched and was likened to the back of a dragon or dinosaur. A common theory about the building is that the rounded feature to the left of centre, terminating at the top in a turret and cross, represents the sword of Saint George (patron saint of Catalonia), which has been plunged into the back of the dragon."
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Vladislav salle in Prague Castle. Source: Tjekkoslovakiet.
When the town of Munster in the Alsace Region of France (near the border with Germany) discovered that their stork population was dwindling, they started a program to attract and nurture them. I think it worked!
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