The Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya stands high on the hill above Montjuic's Magic Fountain. Inside the collection of rescued frescoes from Romanesque churches, with their cartoon saints are the highlight, though the modern art collection is also diverting. Up the hill past the 1992 Olympic Stadium is the Fundació Joan Miró, filled with the artists challenging works.
d I have a project. Wherever I find a town or city which shares its name with a drink, I must imbibe as part of the visit.And so it came to pass that we graced the Graham Port Lodge, across the gorge of the Douro from the fabulous city of Porto, studded with palaces of commerce, and blue tiles churches. Evora is livelier than one would expect. it is a small town in the parched interior, surrounded by cork plantations and grape vines. The secret to its vivacity is the venerable university within its medieval walls, whose students sit in lecture rooms with ith walls lined with azelejo murals |
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