jueves, 28 de enero de 2010

Barcelona


Who designed güell park?
The Güell park desing of Gaudi

• To visit the park and the palace you have to take bus number...
lines 24 and 25, or tour bus.

• What famous market can you visit in "la rambla"
The Boqueria Market

• What can you buy there?
The food products (fruit, vegetables, meat and fish)

• Where does La Rambla finish?
o In the Christopher Columbus monument at Port Vell

• Where is “el barrio gótico"?
o The Gothic Quarter is the centre of the old city of Barcelona. It stretches from La Rambla to Via Laietana, and from the Mediterranean seafront to Ronda de Sant Pere.

• Which famous buildings are there?
o Cathedral of Santa Eulàlia , Basilica of La Mercè , Church of Santa Maria del Pi, Church of Sant Miquel , Plaça Sant Jaume, including Casa de la Ciutat (city hall) and Palau de la Generalitat de Catalunya (presidential palace), Plaça Reial, Plaça del Rei, including Museu d'Història de la Ciutat de Barcelona, Plaça de Sant Felip Neri, Remains of the temple of Augustus, Els Quatre Gats

• Can we visit any of then? yes

• When was “la pedrera” built?
o During the years 1906–1910, being considered officially completed in 1912


• What is the most important about la Sagrada Familia?

It is considered the master-work of renowned Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí the project's vast scale and idiosyncratic design have made it one of Barcelona's (and Spain's) top tourist attractions for many years.

• Why is it so famous?
The church is one of the best examples of the brilliant architect's imagination and includes many symbolic elements. The church's ongoing construction is guided by other artists. The church is incomplete.

• Who was the architect that designed it?
Antoni Gaudí

• Who was Sant Jordi?
The patron saint of Catalunya
HISTORY
There probably was a historical figure called George, who was a prominent Christian in the reign of the pagan Roman Emperor, Diocletian, and was killed in 303. One version of his life records that he was an officer who refused to carry out the Emperor's order that all soldiers must make sacrifices to pagan gods, for which he was hideously tortured to death
LEGEND
The version of the most popular legend explains that in Catalonia Montblanc (Conca de Barberà) lived a terrible dragon that ravaged the population and livestock. To calm him down, was sacrificed to the monster a person chosen by lot. One day, fate drew the king's daughter, who would have died if not for the appearance of a handsome knight in armor (San Jordi), who faced the dragon and killed him. Tradition adds that the bloodshed was born a rose red flowers.

• When do they celebrate it?
on April 23

• How do they celebrate it?
On the day of Sant Jordi is customary that men give their women a rose and a book of women

• The name of the traditional catalan dance is:
the Sardana.

• Describe a castellar or castell
The "Castells" (castle) are formed by a large group of people of any sex and age, their bodies, they build a human tower with several floors and pre-structured. A symbolic way of representing the union and the strength of the Catalans to move forward and get together as much as proposed

Where is the camp nou?
C/. Arístides Maillol, s/n
How to get there: Metro: Maria Cristina (L3), Les Corts (L3), Collblanc (L5), Badal (L5).
Buses: 7, 15, 43, 67, 68, 74, 75, L12, L50, L60 and L62

• Name there typical recipes and explain them:
o Fricandó:
Fillets of veal cooked with plums, pinions, tomatoes, onion and “rovellons” (a kind of mushroom).

o Pa amb tomàquet (bread with tomato) with a selection of sausages:
Slice of bread of coarse bread rubbed hard with the pulp of the tomato and dressed with oils salt and pepper. One accompany with sausages.

o Crema Catalana: Dessert elaborated with egg, milk, burned sugar, grated rind of lemon and corn flour

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