My weekend

January 22, 2018

My weekend

Hello everyone!

I finished up my first week of classes and think I am going to enjoy all of the classes I'm taking (mostly because they all seem easy). This past weekend was filled of adventures in Barcelona and northern Spain.

Besalú

On Friday I took a bus to the 10th century town of Besalú and the Dalí museum. Besalú was a cute little town about an hour from the French border where we explored the old streets and ate a traditional Catalan lunch.

View from bridge walking into the town

There were very few people roaming the streets

Tower in the center of town

Medieval entrance bridge

View from the bottom of the town

Monastery built in 977

Orange tree

The streets were beautiful

Pyrenees Mountains

We couldn't figure out what this building was or how to get to it

Dalí Museum

Seeing the Dalí museum was an incredible experience because it was designed and built by Dalí himself and it is also where he is buried. The museum itself is Dalí's largest work of art.

From far away it looks like Abraham Lincoln

From close up it is Dalí's wife Gala looking out at the Mediterranean

Dalí's favorite work of art

Top of the museum looks like an insect eye

Dalí's portrait of Picasso shows that he both disliked him yet admired him

Where Dalí is buried

Dalí used drawers to show that we have compartments for our feelings. Some are open and other closed.

The Persistence of Memory

Photos taken of Dalí

The outside of the museum

Parc Guell

On Saturday we hiked around Parc Guell to see the sunset. We didn't go to the actual monument part but the sunset was still beautiful.

Correfoc Night 1 (Clot)

Later that night we went to correfoc right outside of our apartment. Correfoc means fire run in Catalan and is a Catalonian tradition of running and dancing in the streets with people dressed like devils while they twirl around sticks that look like giant sparklers. They also have giant pig and dragon statues that they shoot fireworks off of. They usually run after people and try to get them with the fire or try and get them to dance with them.