Most tourists, when thinking "Barcelona" think "Gaudí": Sagrada Família, Park Güell, la Pedrera, ... Antoni Gaudí is the best architect of the Modernisme ("modernism") artistic movement, the Catalan parallel to Art Nouveau and Jugendstil. Modernisme's main postulate is that the division between natural and man-made should be eliminated. Constructions therefore try to incorporate natural features, such as movement, liveliness, non-straightness, and more obvious elements such as animal or vegetal representations. While Gaudí was undoubtedly the most audacious Modernist, he was in no way the only artist who followed that movement. I encourage visitors to Barcelona to get to know some works of these lesser-known artists: while less genial, they may blend better into the city.

Personally, I like visiting those works again and again. Every time I discover new details, and some of them --I especially recomment the attic in la Pedrera-- actually manage to give me a kind of feeling of oneness with Nature.