Barcelona
- ISBN-10
- 0394580273
- ISBN-13
- 9780394580272
- Series
- Barcelona
- Category
- History / Europe / General
- Pages
- 573
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1992
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Author
- Robert Hughes
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 the Trade Paperback edition.
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