Barcelona

Barcelona

A monumentally informed and irresistibly opinionated guide to the most un-Spanish city in Spain, from the bestselling author of <i>The Fatal Shore</i>.<br><br> In these pages, Robert Hughes scrolls through Barcelona's often violent history; tells the stories of its kings, poets, magnates, and revolutionaries; and ushers readers through municipal landmarks that range from Antoni Gaudi's sublimely surreal cathedral to a postmodern restaurant with a glass-walled urinal. The result is a work filled with the attributes of Barcelona itself: proportion, humor, and <i>seny</i>€"the Catalan word for triumphant common sense.