Doors of Barcelona Pt. 2

    Our trip to Barcelona was the most interesting and most difficult that I've made.  Given the strength and international scope of Spanish there seems little effort to learn English outside of the very tourist focused places.  If you are in a tourist area you are overpaying and probably not getting an authentic experience. 

   As we wondered around the non-tourist spots there was tonnes of things to see.  The stone work and tile work were both outstanding and the wood work is not too shabby either.

These were a couple of doors facing onto a busy street. The top door was a fairly common design, I suppose it added to the strength of the door without making it too heavy.  Barcelona is a very old city, if you have travelled in Europe you know that the front door to the building is right on the sidewalk so is not only a statement of style but also a security feature.
Many places had lighter wooden doors with iron or steel grill workon the outside.  That was often very beautiful too.


   Once you get past these doors you enter a court yard from which stairs take you up to apartments.  The entire city seems to be five to seven floor buildings with stores on the ground floor and apartments above.  Sometimes these doors grant entrance into garden courtyards filled with palms and fruit trees. Just like everywhere in the world there are nicer and less nice places to live.


 I suspect that the heat of the summer would be too much for this boy from Ontario but the spring was pretty nice.