Barcelona wouldn't be the same without Gaudí's architecture. Europe is home to the Eiffel Tower, Big Ben, and St. Peter's Basilica, but if you haven't been to Barcelona you're missing out.

BARCELONA, SPAIN -- Stylishly dressed pedestrians filter through a bottleneck of narrow streets, window-shopping, touring cathedrals or soaking up the afternoon sun at a sidewalk cafe in Barri ...

Completed in 1888, it marked not only Gaudí’s coming of age, but also the flowering of Catalan architecture—a victory of the phantasmagorical over the rational that, in the succeeding decades ...

It wasn't until the next day that the chaplain at the Sagrada Família recognized the beggar as the famed architect, but it was too late—Gaudí died two days later, on June 10, 1926.

Olive branches, marigolds and daisies cover wall friezes and ceilings, now resplendent in their original polychromatic hues; while wall murals depicting bucolic fin de siècle scenes have been restored ...