Barcelona

Ryan Aughenbaugh researched the second largest city in Spain, Barcelona, which will be the final stop of our journey.

Unlike Matt, Simone and others who researched small towns, Ryan was confronted with the task of researching a place that has an enormous bibliography.

In his final paper, Ryan reflects:

* One concept of Barcelona that caught my attention was the similarities to our home city of Honolulu in Hawaii -- a greatly diverse city situated on the coast with an emphasis on tourism.

* For my title slide I decided to use a Hawaiian postcard that reads "Aloha Barcelona." To me, this symbolizes the journey made and the history and culture learned by me throughout this process.

* Like Waikiki, Barcelona's main beach is fake. The city beach in Barcelona was constructed for the 1992 Olympics.

* A little known fact about Antoni Gaudi is that the model of the main entrance of the Sagrada Familia church is that of a woman selling sand on a donkey... one might be able to witness this odd design and see how it is meshed with the rest of the building.