++ [ originally posted by Martin ] ++
I'm not a big fan of Gaudi, to me while being a great architect, I hate his color combinations. But on the whole Barcelona doesn't feel like a famous city to me, it's fairly low on monuments and really not an awful lot to see there. Whereas some people make it out to being a second Paris, it's nothing like that.
Are the people nicer? Maybe they are, I haven't really investigated that.
Yeah but isn't every big city like that? Barcelona is pretty packed with tourists, it may not be *as* congested but it would be hard to argue one would go there to avoid tourists. And I just think all that Paris has, the famous places, is what makes it what it is. But it's also more than that, it's also metropolitan, and that btw I didn't feel in Barcelona.