[Palau Reial]
After our mandatory group photo as a class on Monday, I wanted to walk through the gates of the Royal Palace, which is across the street from the University of Barcelona. Dan and Fernanda walked with me through the front part of the property. The city dedicated the land to the King a while back.... There's a big house (palace?) haha and a few fountains and a whole lot of greenery.
[Maritime Museum]
A few classmates wanted to go to the maritime museum and convinced the rest of us to go because there were supposed to be pirates?? there. With the € 2.50 admission fee, I was curious about what we were going to see. It turns out there were just a bunch of model-size ships, some compasses, and a huge replica of the Maria Cristina ship. We made it fun.
[Aquarium]
The aquarium was a short walk away, so we decided that since our museum craving was not fully satisfied, we would go. The aquarium, in our opinion, was way overpriced at € 17.50 for adults.
"A series of 35 tanks, 11,000 animals and 450 different species, an underwater tunnel 80 metres long, six million litres of water and an immense Oceanarium, the only one in Europe, turn this centre into a unique, reference leisure show that has already been visited by more than 14 million people." - Barcelona Aquarium Website.
I thought it was interesting to see all the fish, but I was expecting something a little more spectacular from the 1.6million gallon tank. Walking through the glass tunnel that goes under the tank, it seemed like a lot of the fish are of the same species. Some sharks and stingrays swim around the tunnel as well, but I still wasn't that impressed.
Some of the smaller, wall mounted tanks were great--I wished that they would have been larger! My favorite tanks are the ones with the really ugly/strange fish and also the tanks with the colorful fish.
Click here to see video from my trip to the Barcelona Aquarium.
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