Kelley: My Summer in Sevilla, Spain.: My week break in Madrid and Barcelona.

This week was my break from classes. I had a week off so I decided to explore more of spain and travel to Madrid and Barcelona. I took the AVE train to Madrid and got there on monday. On monday I visited the Prado museum which has original paintings from the 1600's and up that were created by native spaniards. The museum was huge and it cost about 20 euros to enter. I spent about four hours just in that museum there is so much to see and I recognized a lot of the paintings because of my previous spanish history classes. On tuesday I decided to do a tour bus that cost 15 euros for the whole day. These busses take you to a lot of different important places and you just hop off wherever you would like. I got off at Plaza Mayor (Downtown Madrid), Plaza de Espana, The botanic gardens(right by the prado museum), The national library and the Palace. The palace was amazing and it was my favorite thing that I saw in Madrid.

On wednesday I traveled to Barcelona. My hotel was very close to the beach and I spent the first day there. It was nice because in Seville we have the guadalquivir river but the nearest beach is about an hour away. The second day I did another bus tour and saw Sagrada Familia, Parc Guell, La Pedrera (created by Guadi), Casa Batllo and the gothic cathedral. The Sargada Familia is the third most visited monument in Spain. It is a temple that was created by the famous Antoni Guadi in 1882. He created it as a monument for jesus and it is still not completed. Parc Guell is a Park that has many architectural designs created by Guadi. It is up in the mountains of Barcelona and is hard to travel to. Also the Casa Batllo was created by Guadi. He is obviously very famous and well known in spain.

Overall the trip to Madrid and Barcelona was a new experience for me and I hope to return one day. Some photos..

The Pardo Museum