Thursday, October 28, 2021

Barcelona: Born Area Beautiful Flat Old Town Centre (Airbnb), Day 6 of 8

Walking Routes: Apartment to clinic for Covid tests and back, apartment to restaurant in Barceloneta and back, 6 miles.

We are officially Covid free (our tests came back negative), the bikes are in boxes, and we are almost ready to go home! We celebrated with a seafood dinner in the Barceloneta neighborhood, down by the harbor. Lovely.

Barceloneta is a neighborhood wrapped around the harbor and beach.

Sunset from the jetty.

A cable car connects Barceloneta with Montjuic, the hill in the background. Montjuic is known for a fortified castle, Olympic facilities (Barcelona hosted the summer Olympics in 1992), a contemporary art museum, and the Magic Fountain.

The beach was active but not crowded in the chilly off-season evening.

Frank Gehry's stainless steel fish sculpture was built for the 1992 Olympics. It appears gold in color and serves as a canopy for a casino and restaurants connecting the Hotel Arts with the coast.

A street near our apartment. I think this is the only time we were out after it was fully dark and the lights were on! The lamps were originally gas, later refitted for electricity. It is easy to imagine the passageway in the 1800s, with a lamplighter, workers, and gentry making their way in dusky, flickering light.