Today we had a BCA-organized walking tour through downtown Barcelona. It was pretty interesting, but a lot of the buildings we walked by were ones I have already seen during my own exploration. We did however see a cafe called "Cuatro Gats" or Four Cats which is where a number of prominent figures spent a lot of time back in the day. Picasso gave the very first art exhibition of his career in what is now the main dining room of the cafe.
We saw a few interesting places, like a school where 40 school children were killed during the Guerra Civil (Civil War) when a bomb was dropped on a church as Sunday school was letting out. We also saw the headquarters of the socialist party, the front of a secret society building that houses the largest private book collection in all of Spain, and a palace decorrated and by the same decorrator that did a lot of work on the Rockefeller Center in New York. We finnished off the morning by eating sandwiches in Plaza Cataluna.
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