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My wife and I love travel and have been going on adventures every chance we get since the day we got married. Our home base is in the PNW in the U.S. I love history, so World Heritage Sites are always one of the first items I look up when we are travelling to a new place. I try to visit a new country every year.
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Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau
2Flow2 United States - 17-May-25
Visited in May 2025. These two works by the Catalan architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner are both excellent locations to visit, and as other reviewers have said, are just as good as the Antoni Gaudí works.
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Read OnWorks of Antoni Gaudí
2Flow2 United States - 17-May-25
Visited in May 2025. This site maintains a very high rating for a reason. The work is incredible.
One recommendation I hadn't seen on any of the reviews so far: read up on Antoni Gaudí and his non-traditional method of designing before visiting Barcelona! Learning of Gaudí's interesting life beforehand will enhance your experience and give you a perspective that the audio guide tours can help flesh out. (They will not give you the full story on their own.)
I think Kyle Magnuson said it best in his review here: "If all 8 Frank Lloyd Wright inscribed components were in one city, it might feel like this." Wandering around Barcelona, for as touristy as it is, is a treat as you search to discover all of the fascinating Gaudí buildings with their striking, non-traditional architecture style. Experiencing his work will make you lament how few buildings constructed in the modern day (especially in younger countries with few attractive historical edifices) have real personality and style, trading off beauty for price of construction & functionality instead
Read OnVizcaya Bridge
2Flow2 United States - 26-Apr-25
I was expecting to be pretty underwhelmed by this WHS (after all, it is just a bridge...) but it was actually quite a bit better than I expected! I visited this during March 2025, during the year my wife and I have been living in Spain. We had a trip to the nearby San Sebastián planned, and so rented a car specifically for the purpose of doing a day in Bilbao where I knew I we could see this bridge.
Unfortunately for me, our other activities took a bit longer than expected, and parking in Bilbao can be a bit tricky. Be aware of that if you are bringing personal transportation into the city as opposed to public transport
Read OnEl Escurial
2Flow2 United States - 23-Mar-25
My visit to El Escorial was in November 2024 as a part of my nine months living in Madrid, Spain, and I have to say, El Escorial continues to stand out as one of my favorite sites in the country. The monastery is just massive and stunning beyond words... every time you think you've seen the final room, there is another one full of incredibly intricate, lavish detail sitting beyond the next doorway, and it continues on and on like this for hours. Frankly, a lot of the royal palaces in Spain are quite large and have a lot of distinct, highly decorated rooms, but El Escorial has them all beat. El Escorial was built both as a religious complex and a royal setting blended together
Read OnMudejar Architecture of Aragon
2Flow2 United States - 23-Mar-25
This WHS is a little bit weird to "review" as are many of the dispersed-location sites that highlight "examples of" a certain style of something. (Whether that be something natural or man-made.) Like many of the reviewers here, I experienced this WHS (in March 2025) at its sites in the city of Zaragoza. I did not go to Teruel at all.
The trip to Zaragoza was a delightful one, which can easily be done in a day or less to see the Aljafería, the excellent four Roman ruins museums, and the famed column inside "El Pilar" Cathedral. To focus more specifically on the WHS itself, I'd say the Mudejar Architecture is a great introduction to learning about the history of Muslim rule in Spain for those who are unitiated. (A period from the 700s ~ 1400s in which Muslims controlled the majority of the peninsula and then fought to maintain control in the face of Catholic kings who pushed to take the territory back
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