SPAIN: OCTOBER 2015

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Bilbao at twilight: La Salve Bridge spanning the Nervion River

With the Guggenheim Museum on the left

 

The back of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao

 

A side street in Bilbao, showing typical Basque windows

 

Barcelona: "Witch Scarer" (espanta-bruxes) chimneys on the roof of La Pedrera (Casa Mila)

This initially reviled, now revered, 1910 apartment building was designed by Antoni Gaudi

 

The facade of Gaudi's Sagrada Familia in Barcelona

A cathedral still unfinished after 130 years

 

The ceiling inside the Sagrada Familia

 

The courtyard of the Salvador Dali Museum in Figueres

 

One of Dali's ceiling paintings inside his Museum in Figueres

 

Lieschen explores the Gardens of Alhambra, the sprawling palace-fortress in Granada

 

The ceiling in the Cathedral within Alhambra

 

Night view of the Alhambra complex in Granada

 

Inside Cordoba's Mezquita, a gigantic mosque built between the 8th and 10th centuries

 

 

The mosque was  big enough to enable a full-size Christian Cathedral to be built deep inside the Mezquita

 

The ceiling of the Cathedral that was built inside the Mezquita in Cordoba

 

Seville: The Alcazar complex, on the site of a Moorish fortress (alcazar)

Now includes a functioning royal palace, ornate halls, courtyards and gardens

 

Seville: inside the Alcazar

 

Ronda: one of the oldest towns in Spain, famous for its gorge and its bandits

The Puente Nuevo (the "New Bridge", built between 1755 and 1793) spans Ronda's two districts

 

A unique version of the "Last Supper"

A painting inside the Santa Maria la Mayor, a cathedral-like church in Ronda

 

Lieschen strolls the Avenida del Mar in Marbella, on the Mediterranean Sea

Featuring a collection of Salvador Dali sculptures

 

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