After the conference I had the opportunity to visit this strange city. The city is quite huge.. so you need to take the metro, but you also need to be prepared to walk. :)So, The "Sagrada Famiglia" (from Gaudi') was the first thing I wanted to see.
This church is strange (I have to admit I've never seen something like that)... but for God's sake... Spanish make u pay (8 euro) to visit the inside of the church... which is under construction. You pay for what? To see people working (after 200 years... using the new technologies... they are still working on it??)?
Furthermore, if you want to go on the top of the church, you need to take a lift which costs further 2 euro (is not possible to use stairs... what the hell!)
And, what can u see from the top??? Nothing... there is nothig... just stairs, stairs... and the view of Barcelona (a city like 1000 else because there are no monuments to see, just regular houses :( ).
After the church I walked for around half an hour... to reach this "dildo-building". I was not able to understand the meaning of that (I hope to receive some comments about it). It seems the name is Glòries... but no idea about the function! :(
Then, I've taken the metro with destination... "Las Rambla", practically the main street of this city. So... what's spacial about this street?? Nothing, the street is like evry other street in the world, full of shops... bars...
and street artists like these
nothing else... so the main attraction of the city is that? A couple of mediocre people who try to make money begging charity?? And tourists walking up and down making fun of them?? Yes, here u are Bercelona! (there is *really* nothing else to see)
So I walked for hours around this part of the city (which is the oldest part) and something came into my mind? Where (the fuck) are the statues of the people who died for the Spain? You know... when a warrior, the head of an army conquers something... it has been usually celebrated with statues around the city. The most common is to put the general on an horse where the position of the horse depicts how he is died. (if the horse stands on 4 legs it means he is died for natural reasons... if stands on the inferior legs.. he is died during a battle... etc...).The funny thing is that there are no such kind of statues in Barcelona. I've only found this one after hours
I think... he is the only man who died for this city, while the others were having fun on the beach. Probably you can thing this is a stupid thing... but if you know the Spanish people, the way they are (lazy...) everything starts to have sense.
And every time, they find the way to steal your money (just like in Naples). Inside the church... if you want to take a picture of the crypt... you need to pay to turn on the lights. I have no words for that...
One of the things I'll never forget from the Spain... is the food! Here food is quite cheap (u need to find the right places of course) and very very good.
I'll never forget this steak... for only 12 euro. 
And... here u are the beach! Of course full of people! 
Nice :) in Italy a building like that will be called an "ECO-MONSTER", because the ambiental impact is too high! But here... it seems everything is ok! W the communists! (of course I am sarcastic!)
So, what to say about this city? If you want to have fun... probably is the best place, but if you want to see interesting things, if you want to smell the real history, please don't waste your time visiting a nation which has preferred to conquer the South America (mile and miles away) fighting against people who used the arc and arrow because they were no able to defeat French people! come to Italy.
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