Spain pictures
Jul. 15th, 2009 10:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
qatarperegrineI'm back in Doha, just in time for sandstorm season. Woo.
Pictures of my trip to Spain with my friend Ryan are now posted. Someday Ryan will post his pictures there too, but it may be a while since he's in the midst of moving and starting a job right now.
Since not everyone may want to peruse all 260 photos, I've posted one highlight picture for each city below.
My travel buddy Ryan and me. Ryan is a close friend from Qatar who just finished grad school in Pittsburgh. He was going to Spain for a conference this summer, and arrived early so we could vacation together.
The famed mezquita of Córdoba, which began life as a Christian church in around 600 AD, became a mosque in 784 AD (only 150 years after Mohammed's death!) and then was converted into a cathedral in 1236.
This is not my most beautiful picture of the Alcázar in Seville, but it's one I'll always remember: it's the door to the chapel where Carlos V married Isabel of Portugal. I knew the Abrahamic religions intermingled in Andalucia, but not to the extent that a king's chapel would be decorated with Arabic prayers!
Granada is famed for the Alhambra, which is wonderful, but what I enjoyed most was bumming around the old Muslim quarter, full of little shops and shisha bars.
We then went up to Catalonia and spent two days in pilgrims' quarters in the monastery village of Montserrat. Montserrat is known for its weird landscape as well as for its lovely Black Madonna.
Our two days in Barcelona were all about seeing the crazy, amazing architecture of Antoni Gaudí. This is my favorite, Casa Batlló.
This isn't even my picture; it's from Wikipedia. However, the best part of Madrid is the Prado, and my favorite thing in the Prado was this painting by Hieronymous Bosch, so here you have it.
Or, if you totally can't be bothered, here's the extremely redacted version:
Pictures of my trip to Spain with my friend Ryan are now posted. Someday Ryan will post his pictures there too, but it may be a while since he's in the midst of moving and starting a job right now.
Since not everyone may want to peruse all 260 photos, I've posted one highlight picture for each city below.
My travel buddy Ryan and me. Ryan is a close friend from Qatar who just finished grad school in Pittsburgh. He was going to Spain for a conference this summer, and arrived early so we could vacation together.
The famed mezquita of Córdoba, which began life as a Christian church in around 600 AD, became a mosque in 784 AD (only 150 years after Mohammed's death!) and then was converted into a cathedral in 1236.
This is not my most beautiful picture of the Alcázar in Seville, but it's one I'll always remember: it's the door to the chapel where Carlos V married Isabel of Portugal. I knew the Abrahamic religions intermingled in Andalucia, but not to the extent that a king's chapel would be decorated with Arabic prayers!
Granada is famed for the Alhambra, which is wonderful, but what I enjoyed most was bumming around the old Muslim quarter, full of little shops and shisha bars.
We then went up to Catalonia and spent two days in pilgrims' quarters in the monastery village of Montserrat. Montserrat is known for its weird landscape as well as for its lovely Black Madonna.
Our two days in Barcelona were all about seeing the crazy, amazing architecture of Antoni Gaudí. This is my favorite, Casa Batlló.
This isn't even my picture; it's from Wikipedia. However, the best part of Madrid is the Prado, and my favorite thing in the Prado was this painting by Hieronymous Bosch, so here you have it.
Or, if you totally can't be bothered, here's the extremely redacted version:
