Barcelona
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0679743839
ISBN 13
9780679743835
Category
Popular Non-Fiction
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Publication Year
1993
Publisher
Pages
592
Tags
Description
Barcelona is Robert Hughes's monumentally informed and irresistibly opinionated guide to the most un-Spanish city in Spain. Hughes scrolls through Barcelona's often violent history; tells the stories of its kings, poets, magnates, and revolutionaries; and ushers readers through municipal landmarks that range from Antoni Gaudi's sublimely surreal cathedral to a postmodern restaurant with a glass-walled urinal. The result is a work filled with the attributes of Barcelona itself: proportion, humor, and seny -- the Catalan word for triumphant common sense. - from Amzon
Number of Copies
1
