What is the town you live in famous for?

[Amadeu]

BARCELONA:

Gaudí: Sagrada familia, Guell Park, Pedrera,etc..

Olympic Games 1992

One of the best weathers in the world!!..

Ramblas, Paseo de Gracia ( known avenues)

Music Palace: http://www.palaumusica.org/

Great Port, Beaches....

Montjuich Fountains:

http://www.bcn.es/turisme/castella/turisme/llocs/01.htm

One of the best places to eat: Allioli, Calçots, beans with butifarra, escudella,etc etc..

F.C.Barcelona: one of the best football teams in the world

.An Important thing: you have near beach and country

And last but not least: an own language different from spanish: The CATALAN..

[Tony Papard]

BARCELONA:

Gaudí: Sagrada familia, Guell Park, Pedrera,etc..

Olympic Games 1992

One of the best weathers in the world!!..

Ramblas, Paseo de Gracia ( known avenues)

Music Palace: http://www.palaumusica.org/

Great Port, Beaches....

Montjuich Fountains:

http://www.bcn.es/turisme/castella/turisme/llocs/01.htm

One of the best places to eat: Allioli, Calçots, beans with butifarra, escudella,etc etc..

F.C.Barcelona: one of the best football teams in the world

.An Important thing: you have near beach and country

And last but not least: an own language different from spanish: The CATALAN..

I LOVE Antoni Gaudi's fantastic art-nouveau architecture in Barcelona. The Sagrada Familia, still being built years after Gaudi was run over by a tram, is fantastic. I love all his buildings, and have visited many of them, been on the roof of two - very surrealistic. And Guell Park is great.

Neglected during the Franco era, I discovered these buildings in the 1970s and have visited them many times since.

There are many great things to see in Catalonia - such as Salvador Dali's theater-museum in Figueres, another surrealistic place we visited. Fantastic! Loved that castle next door where his wife Gala lived, with eggs in place of battlements!

[Amadeu]

BARCELONA:

Gaudí: Sagrada familia, Guell Park, Pedrera,etc..

Olympic Games 1992

One of the best weathers in the world!!..

Ramblas, Paseo de Gracia ( known avenues)

Music Palace: http://www.palaumusica.org/

Great Port, Beaches....

Montjuich Fountains:

http://www.bcn.es/turisme/castella/turisme/llocs/01.htm

One of the best places to eat: Allioli, Calçots, beans with butifarra, escudella,etc etc..

F.C.Barcelona: one of the best football teams in the world

.An Important thing: you have near beach and country

And last but not least: an own language different from spanish: The CATALAN..

I LOVE Antoni Gaudi's fantastic art-nouveau architecture in Barcelona. The Sagrada Familia, still being built years after Gaudi was run over by a tram, is fantastic. I love all his buildings, and have visited many of them, been on the roof of two - very surrealistic. And Guell Park is great.

Neglected during the Franco era, I discovered these buildings in the 1970s and have visited them many times since.

There are many great things to see in Catalonia - such as Salvador Dali's theater-museum in Figueres, another surrealistic place we visited. Fantastic! Loved that castle next door where his wife Gala lived, with eggs in place of battlements!

Totally Agree!
Greetings from Catalonia

[Henry]

BARCELONA:


Olympic Games 1992

What year before the olympics was it when Jerry Lee did"Whole Lotta Shakin" on a outdoorstage.It was an event to celebrate that Barcelona was given the olympics.I saw it on the swedish Tv and also have a short videorecording of it but never wrote down the date.
Henry

[peterchecksfield]

BARCELONA:


Olympic Games 1992

What year before the olympics was it when Jerry Lee did"Whole Lotta Shakin" on a outdoorstage.It was an event to celebrate that Barcelona was given the olympics.I saw it on the swedish Tv and also have a short videorecording of it but never wrote down the date.
Henry

This was taped on October 8th 1988.

It was also on TV in the UK.

[Amadeu]

BARCELONA:


Olympic Games 1992

What year before the olympics was it when Jerry Lee did"Whole Lotta Shakin" on a outdoorstage.It was an event to celebrate that Barcelona was given the olympics.I saw it on the swedish Tv and also have a short videorecording of it but never wrote down the date.
Henry

This was taped on October 8th 1988.

It was also on TV in the UK.

On the Montjuich Fountains

[peterchecksfield]

I notice that Richard Harvey hasn't contributed to this thread...

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20091231/tu ... 23e80.html

[peterchecksfield]

Here's my town...

http://eastcliffrichard.blogspot.com/20 ... rgate.html

[Dave McKee]

Thanks Peter for the trip round the old town. I remember Dreamland when it was at its height. my mum took me to see 'The Girl Can't Help It' at the cinema there in 1957, and I was hooked on rock and roll ever since.
I also stayed in the grand hotel in Cliftonville a lot of years ago and met a bloke I thought I knew in the bar there. He was about 70 and was as bald as a coot. Later that evening i saw him on stage with a wig on and realised it was Dennis Lotis!!! And what a great act he still had - I remembered all his old hits with the Ted Heath band, and afterwards we had a great time reminiscing in the bar again.