And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Barcelona, of course. Sagrada Familia Cathedral. Built by Antonio Gaudi.
ReplyDeleteGaudy is right!! My eyes hurt just looking at that little bit, I can't imagine what the inside must look like....
DeleteI'm currently in Italy, having spent time in Florence and Rome, for the second time.
DeleteWonderful churches and art.
At least 25% as good as Gaudi's cathedral, which will turn out to be one of the major architectural artworks of the ages.
The man was nuts and brilliant in exactly the right proportions.
He signed out from life perfectly: he got hit by a bus.
Barcelona?
ReplyDeleteThat was the name that popped into my head as I looked at the picture.
DeleteOverdoistan? Gaudistan? Gauchistan?
ReplyDeleteWasteofmoneystan
DeleteLooks like Barcelona. I was there in 2019. They are still working on it and it still isn't finished.
ReplyDeleteI am pretty sure it is not Presidio, Texas.
ReplyDelete...nor Sierra Blanco
Deletenope. Sierra Nowhere.
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