Symmetry in Spain

This week, Sofia asks us to consider Symmetry for the Lens Artists Challenge. I’m sick of rain and storms and gales here in the UK, so I think I’ll whisk you off to Spain, where even in winter you can depend on at least some sunny skies.

As the featured photo shows, we arrive at Barcelona Airport and head straight for the Metro. But we’ll stay here only long enough to go to my very favourite place there, the Hospital de Sant Pau.

Hospital de Sant Pau

We’ll just nip up the coast to Canet de Mar and the  Lluís Domènech i Montaner House-Museum. I promised a whole post about this, and this reminds me I have yet to write it. Soon …

Then we’ll head for Valencia, and visit the old – La Lonja, the Silk Exchange; the Puente del Mar crossing a park that was once a river, the Turia – and the new: La Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias.

Perhaps Alicante next? A stroll along the seafront?

Alicante

Then Córdoba. We have to head for its ancient church, once a mosque, la Mezquita.

And let’s stay down south, and go to Granada, and the Alhambra The selfie-seeker wouldn’t shift, so she’s immortalised here.

Then Cádiz 

Cadiz

And that’s all we have time for. We’ll go home the long way round, on board ship,

Thanks Sofia. I need this break. But it’s still raining outside …

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Author: margaret21

I'm retired and live in North Yorkshire, where I walk , write, volunteer and travel as often as I can.

66 thoughts on “Symmetry in Spain”

  1. Oh, dear! What can I say? It’s raining here too, in sympathy, but as you say, just for an hour or two. We had brilliant blue skies a moment ago and they’ll be back. I enjoyed your asymmetrical trip around Spain, Margaret. Still a few parts I’ve yet to reach, and do, please, write that post on the museum. I love his work.

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  3. Thank you! I needed that. Very timely, too, as next year’s rail jaunt might be to Spain. And thanks for reminding me of a long ago holiday which took in Granada and Cordoba where we were lucky enough to coincide with an ‘open patio’ weekend. Glorious!

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  9. Love the new Valencia and the Alicante promenade, how I wish I was walking along there. Been awake since 3 am never known winds so strong, and I am pretty used to windy weather here. Felt blown off the shed, but fortunately no other damage, except for some plants.

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  10. In the tropical heat of northern Madagascar I almost (but not quite!) envy you your rain! Lovely to see these examples of symmetry from Spain. I like how you’ve used reflections to create the symmetry in some of the shots, and you’ve reminded me, again, that we really must go to Cordoba one day!

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  17. Magnificent Spain ! Thank you Margaret for blue skies and marvelous architecture. Hard to beat this gallery of beauties. I will not complain about rain – I see from some of the comments about harsh winds too. Safe travels.

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  19. I very much enjoyed seeing the sights with you, Margaret. Here there is a sad lack of such beautiful imagination with most of our buildings being boxes. Thanks for the broadening views.

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    1. Ah, thanks Tina. I quite like that last one too. Its part of a whole set I did on a journey to Bilbao, and kept me purposefully amused for a while.

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  24. Thank you for taking us on a tour of Spain Margaret. Your images are simply beautiful and appreciated. We haven’t reached our rainy season yet. That’s usually a month or two of solid (or it seems like that) of rain. But then in California, we also have drought for what seems like years. So it seems that Mother Nature is in charge!

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  26. Oh…beautiful symmetry found in Spain. Love the walkway at Alicante, the silhouette at Cadiz, the architecture at Alhambra and Cordorba. And I laughed at your selfie comment. Gives it great perspective though. OK…I loved your whole post. lol

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