{"id":9894,"date":"2015-11-18T15:40:17","date_gmt":"2015-11-18T20:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/?p=9894"},"modified":"2015-12-06T09:22:56","modified_gmt":"2015-12-06T14:22:56","slug":"mon-jew-eek-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/?p=9894","title":{"rendered":"Mon-jew-eek and More"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wednesday, November 18, 2015<\/span><\/p>\n

Today was our day to climb Montjuic, pronounced “mon-jew-eek,” the hill overlooking Barcelona’s harbor and city beaches.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Besides a spectacular view of the city, there are many things to do and see, for example:\u00a0the Fundacio Miro, ruins of an 18th century castle, the Catalan Art Museum, and the 1929 World Fairgrounds.<\/span><\/p>\n

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We took the Metro and a bus almost to the top of Montjuic to visit the best of Joan Miro’s artwork in the world. \u00a0The collection is housed in a fabulous building specially designed in 1975 by Josep Lluis Sert to showcase Miro’s amazing art. \u00a0Unfortunately, photography was not allowed in the galleries, but I took a few photos in the outdoor spaces.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Then we rode the circa-1929 Teleferico del Puerto – Aeri del Port cable car down to the harbor peninsula known as Barceloneta. We rode from a station on the side of the hill to the top of a tall tower and onward to another tower by the beach. It was great fun and the views of the city and the harbor were amazing. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0After a quick elevator ride down the last tower, we were on the beach and the Mediterranean Sea!\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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It was a long walk back to our hotel on the Ramblas but we did it! It was good to explore another part of Barcelona and admire the architecture.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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We enjoyed a couple of recouperative ‘cavas’ and patatas bravas in a little outdoor cafe behind the hotel. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Later at night, we ventured out for homestyle paella at Restaurant Vigo.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Amazing food in Barcelona!!! \u00a0We shared tomato bread and fried chorizo for appetizers and a delicious seafood paella for an entree.\u00a0<\/span>
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Wednesday, November 18, 2015 Today was our day to climb Montjuic, pronounced “mon-jew-eek,” the hill overlooking Barcelona’s harbor and city beaches.\u00a0\u00a0 Besides a spectacular view of the city, there are many things to do and see, for example:\u00a0the Fundacio Miro, ruins of an 18th century castle, the Catalan Art Museum, and the 1929 World Fairgrounds. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9894"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10183,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9894\/revisions\/10183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}