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Barcelona is much like other famous southern European port cities, with an older "city within a city" inside it's borders. Along the famous La Rambla boulevard, shopkeepers sell everything from small jewelry and trinkets to live animals like parrots or chickens.

Architecture is of some significance in Barcelona, chiefly owed to one Antoni Gaudi, who's gothic styled works are best shown in his unfinished church "La Sagrada Familia." He is also attributed the honour of the origin of the word "gaudy" for "being showy in a tasteless or vulgar way." Gaudi died in 1926 after being run over by a tram, and was buried in the crypt of his basilica masterpiece.