Travels on Planet Earth - A blog
This is a guest post from Livia Gamble (pictured left), who can usually be found on the Central Coast of NSW, Australia but has recently taken some time out to travel the world. She is blogging at Letters to G to share all the great places she visits along the way. This guest post is [...]
Barcelona, Spain; September 2007 Cable car across the harbour from the Barceloneta beach area to Montjuic Park. It was a lovely sunny afternoon and we had clear views out to the ocean in one direction and back towards La Sagrada Familia cathedral in the other. We had to queue for a while but the views [...]
Madrid, Spain; October 2008 I stumbled across his pair of oil paintings upstairs at the famous Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain. It was quite a contrast immediately after perusing the rooms full of Spanish royal portraits, mainly by Velazquez. There was quite a striking family resemblance between fathers, sons, grandsons and brothers and also sisters [...]
The top 10 most popular posts at the end of 2008. 10. Photo Friday: Catholic taste A hilarious religious painting from the Prado in Madrid, Spain. Popular with Google searches for the term ‘Catholic taste’. 9. Colonial grandeur of the American Granada Beautiful Spanish colonial architecture in Granada, Nicaragua. 8. Guest post: Sleeping around Angela [...]
Jerez de la Frontera, Spain; October 2008 Doors are a big deal in Spain. Perhaps it’s the Moorish influence as doors seem to be a central feature of architecture in Morocco and Tunisia as well. We saw beautiful doors everywhere we went in Spain, from Catalonia to Andalucia, from medieval fortresses (or alcazars) to suburban [...]
Barcelona, Spain; October 2008 You can’t get more classically Spanish than bull fighting but as an animal lover it’s not particularly appealing to me. Stumbling across this chocolate sculpture of bull fighting at the Chocolate Museum in Barcelona was as close as I got to witnessing the real thing during my holiday in Spain, and [...]
Barcelona, Spain; October 2008 We spent five days in Barcelona, staying in an apartment about two blocks from La Sagrada Familia (The Sacred Family), the famous cathedral designed by Antoni Gaudi. It’s worth seeing for two reasons. Firstly, the architecture is startlingly original – it really is like nothing I’ve ever seen before. The building [...]
Madrid, Spain; October 2008 This, my friends, is a 17th century painting by Alonso Cano of Saint Bernard receiving the milk of the Virgin Mary. It’s on display at the Prado Museum in Madrid. When people talk about being “catholic in their tastes”, somehow I don’t think this is quite what they have in mind.* [...]
Spain is packed with religious artworks – some of them more quirky than others, such as these Jesus statues from Barcelona and Sevilla. Spain is an intensely Catholic country and has been ever since the Moors were expelled in the Middle Ages and the fearsome Spanish Inquisition in the centuries that followed. So it’s not [...]
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