Trip to Spain
Spain 2010
I took these photos on my trip to Spain (Madrid, Toledo, Seville, Córdoba, and Barcelona) in the last week of May and first week of June, 2010. The photos have been reduced to 1600x1200 from their original 4000x3000 size. Also, some of the photos have been cropped in order to get rid of the vignetting effect from my polarizing filter.
Photos
Cured acorn-fed Iberian ham (jamón ibérico) hanging in a shop in Madrid. You can't get this in the United States because the ham is left in open-air caves to cure. It tastes like nothing else I've ever had; it was so delicious that I ate it almost every day.
Toledo
Toledo's cathedral
Inlaying gold in the Damascene style at a Toledo shop
En route to Seville on one of RENFE's high speed AVE trains
Torre del Oro — a Moorish defense tower
Seville's bull-fighting stadium
A fountain inside the Alcázar of Seville
Seville's cathedral is the third-largest church in the world and the largest Gothic cathedral
Inside the mosque-cathedral of Córdoba
The mosque's mihrab
The choir of the cathedral that was built within the mosque
The gardens of Córdoba's Alcázar de los Reyes Cristianos
Inside Barcelona's gothic cathedral
The cloister is the home of 13 geese
The rooftop
Off in the distance is La Sagrada Família
Gaudí, the
chief architect of La Sagrada Família and many other works, created
empirical methods of design such as the hanging model to reduce the
amount of complicated math
Gaudí also designed a simple parish school building; the roof is designed to shed rainwater effectively
Bull-fighting is not as popular in Barcelona as it is in Madrid and Seville, and there is a lot of protest graffiti at the Barcelona stadium
Casa Batlló on la Illa de la Discórdia (Block of Discord), designed by Gaudí
La Pedrera, an apartment building designed by Gaudí
On the rooftop
The Montjuic Communications Tower
You can take an elevator to the top of the monument
