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Actually it should be the top three.. in Eurpe atleast. London, ROme and Barcleona are the top three .. depending on your tastes... the other cities(New York, Paris, Madrid Berlin)come much more far away....(he hehehe trying to pick a flame war??? no, not really... )

So I really encourage you...to come.. If you like science... go tho the science museum.. Other uesum are the best romanic in the world at the MNAC.. and of course Miro museum..

Contemporary art and Picasso are also fine...

And this is only regarding museums....

Waiting for you.

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I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude

by kcurie on Wed Jan 25th, 2006 at 02:18:24 PM EST
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I always wanted to tour around the Gaudi buildings. And I hear the (late) night life there is excellent <heh>. (My wife and I have a trip to Barcelona on our "we have to go there soon" list...so maybe we can have a Barcelona meetup sometime. When's the best time to visit Barcelona, in your humble opinionm kcurie?

"Once in awhile we get shown the light, in the strangest of places, if we look at it right" - Hunter/Garcia
by whataboutbob on Wed Jan 25th, 2006 at 02:27:34 PM EST
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I think the best time is April-May....if you do not care about alergy..

The best building in the world is in Barcelona.. a gaudi's one (according to my taste is not the most famous) actually probably three out of the five best building (where people can live) are in Barcelona...

If you want dead monument.. Egypt is robably the best or Jordan or even Greece and Rome.. if you want gorgeous and amzing buildings where people can live...Barcelona...

If you go this year I guess I will be there just one weekend..but after summer.. I will probably be there...

Late night is great..absolutely great.. given that there is a lot of different kinds of night depending on the part of the city... There are some specific types of going out that are better in other parts of Spain (tapas nights better in Andalucia) or even Germany (rave parties probably better in Germany). Other than that...probably London , Istambul and Berlin are on the top five with Barcelona...

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I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude

by kcurie on Wed Jan 25th, 2006 at 02:37:04 PM EST
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You must mean Casa Batlló, then if it's not La Pedrera and it's in Barcelona proper.

guaranteed to evoke a violent reaction from police is to challenge their right to "define the situation." --- David Graeber citing Marc Cooper
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Jan 25th, 2006 at 02:46:59 PM EST
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yea, wow...that's wild...that's one I was thinking of...and isn't there a wild church Gaudi did?

"Once in awhile we get shown the light, in the strangest of places, if we look at it right" - Hunter/Garcia
by whataboutbob on Wed Jan 25th, 2006 at 03:51:34 PM EST
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I suppose you mean La Sagrada Familia, which is an unfinished cathedral.

I think you could classify people into two groups by whether they find the Passion or the Nativity facade more aesthetically pleasing.

guaranteed to evoke a violent reaction from police is to challenge their right to "define the situation." --- David Graeber citing Marc Cooper

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Jan 25th, 2006 at 04:57:49 PM EST
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Unfinished cathedral.. which is going ot be finished in the next decade.. or at least this is what they have been saying the last two decades....

I personally do not find any of the facades pleasant....You like one or the other or neither.. Very diffciult to like both.. indeed.

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I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude

by kcurie on Thu Jan 26th, 2006 at 06:03:13 AM EST
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J eje je

You know my tastes.. amazing...

Yes.. casa batllo.. my screensaver if I ever put one...

Best building in the world by far .. million of years... ahead..

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I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude

by kcurie on Thu Jan 26th, 2006 at 06:00:44 AM EST
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I just know my Gaudi... You gave me enough clues.

guaranteed to evoke a violent reaction from police is to challenge their right to "define the situation." --- David Graeber citing Marc Cooper
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Jan 26th, 2006 at 06:02:38 AM EST
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Barcelona is like the best combination of Marseille and Toulouse. Marseille for the gentle weather and the general layout by the sea, and Toulouse for the dense & ancient center with narrow streets, and for the student life.

But but but, Toulouse clearly wins in the student & bar life department: 120,000 students for a city of 420,000 (total metropolitan area: 1 million), while all of Catalonia has less than 140 000 students (and Barcelona city is 1,5 million people, and a total metropolitan area of 4.6 million)

=> In Barcelona, the alleged coolest student town in the world, students are diluted into the overall mass bouuuu houuuu whistle bouuu the crowd goes wild

Viva Tolosa!!

(it's time to fight people, it's time to fight!!)

by Alex in Toulouse on Wed Jan 25th, 2006 at 03:07:10 PM EST
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Hey, I'm all for Tolosa, y'know, but is this the thread to start a fight ???

240 comments and counting...

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Wed Jan 25th, 2006 at 03:17:44 PM EST
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I thought Tolosa was in the Basque country????

guaranteed to evoke a violent reaction from police is to challenge their right to "define the situation." --- David Graeber citing Marc Cooper
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Jan 25th, 2006 at 03:18:44 PM EST
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Tolosa is the Roman, and more importantly Occitan, name for Toulouse. But I think you're right about another Tolosa in the Basque country.
by Alex in Toulouse on Wed Jan 25th, 2006 at 03:31:22 PM EST
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just when things were calming down, you go incite ancient regional rivalries!! ;)

(heh, try to say that fast 3 times: ancient regional rivalries...)

"Once in awhile we get shown the light, in the strangest of places, if we look at it right" - Hunter/Garcia

by whataboutbob on Wed Jan 25th, 2006 at 03:55:53 PM EST
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I do not doubt that Tolouse is better for studen-bar life. It is like Santiago de Compostela (Galicia, norhte-west in Spain).. I think Santiago beats Tolouse on the ratio by far.

Nevertheless on disco-bar style night full of strudents and all kind of people and with different party styles.. I would say Barceloan beats them both....In number, diversity and ratio... there hardly any place with more disco and dico-bars than Barcelona in the Mediterraneum.....Maybe istambul they say...

Let's start the fight.....!!!!

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I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude

by kcurie on Thu Jan 26th, 2006 at 06:08:31 AM EST
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