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Triangles and Reflections

The entrance to the metro in Puerta del Sol provides some great photo opportunities with its triangles of glass at varying angles.  Just add some Spanish sun and you have […]

Calderon Gagged

Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600 — 1681), born and died in Madrid, was the dramatist and poet who succeeded Lope de Vega as the greatest Spanish playwright of the Golden Age.  He is well […]

Orange Modernism

This beautiful orange roof towers above the Plaça Catalunya, at the corner of Passeig de Gràcia and Ronda de Sant Pere. Linked to Mandarin Orange Monday.

Artists on the Seafront

These two distinguished looking fellows, are two beloved Catalan artists and one-time Sitges residents from the modernist period. Santiago Rusiñol i Prats (1861 – 1931) was a  Barcelona-born painter, poet, collector, cultural […]

In The Pink

Spring in the Puerta del Sol brings pink and cheerfulness into our lives. Linked to Pink Saturday and Favourite Photo Friday.