Thursday, January 8, 2009

Tibidabo

On one of the days that Renee was in Barc with me, we took the subway to the bottom of the hill at the edge of the city, and from there walked up to the top of the hill where there sat a church with an amazing view. The church is called Tibidabo and it is viewable from the water. It's one of those buildings that stick out majestically at the top of the hill and draws you to it when you have a chance to get up there.

The inside was very clean, quiet, and nice. We had chosen a weekday with less than par weather to go in and so there were very few people there. One of the trams that take you there wasn't even functioning that day, because it was the Three Kings holiday.

When we were inside, it felt amazingly majestic and wonderful to me, the way I had always expected a church to feel but hadn't. I think I liked this one because it was so clean and there were no people inside the 2nd floor other than Renee and me. It felt so different than other churches I'd been in in the past.

The church had multiple stained glass windows like any other church, but this one had a sign and markings showing how some of its windows had been sponsored by other spanish speaking countries.

Clouds rolled through and eventually it started hailing before we started walking back down. While we were walking, hail turned to rain and that's when we got soaking wet. That's how the gross foot story came to be.

The view from the church would have been amazing had the clouds and fog not been covering the sky. It still felt magical though.

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