Barcelona Day 5 (Sep 11 2008)

On September 11, Catalonia commemorates the 1714 Siege of Barcelona defeat during the War of the Spanish Succession. As a punishment for their support to the claim of Habsburg Archduke Charles to the throne of Spain, institutions and rights of the territories of the Crown of Catalonia and Aragon were abolished by the victorious absolutist Bourbon monarchy in line with the political evolution occurring in other parts of Europe at the same time.

But, to us this meant it was a bank holiday, and Dan had off. We chose this day to take the Bus Turistic, a hop-on hop-off bus that takes you to all the sites of the city. Wow, we saw EVERYTHING.


















And this was all before we came to what we really wanted to see...Park Güell. This deserves it's own entry.