Its all about the hustle and bustle!

            The Parc Güell is (or better: was) a public park that consists of several gardens and architectural  highlights of the work of Antoni Gaudí. The park is situated on the southern slope of Monte Carmelo, belonging to the foothills of the Collserola, located in the Gràcia district. This location was picked by founder Eusebi Güell as it offered the prospect to escape the 1900's upcoming urbanization and urban hustle and bustle of Barcelona's city center. But still was in the vicinity of the city for shops and other facilities. In 1984 UNESCO declared the park a World Heritage Site.

I took these photos for this panorama in 2011. Here you see the main entrance of the park, with the Sala Hipóstila, the Dragón de la escalinata and the fountain in the middle. In 2011 the park was really a "public" park. With free entrance! Thereby, attracting huge numbers of tourists very day. One the one end a good thing, but on the other a growing pain for the neighborhood and the tourists themselves. It simply got too crowed. Again too much hustle and bustle!

I recently visited the park again. To handle the crowds, the local borough implemented a ticket scheme. A ticket costs 7 or 8 Euros. The entry to the monumental zone of the park is now restricted to only 400 visitors per hour. This preserves the monuments, ensures visitors an enjoyable experience and reliefs the neighborhood a little. Not a bad thing one would say. However, it requires you to make a time coordinated appointment well before you visit the park. Not very practical when holiday's are all about not having any appointments or obligations and one's activities are largely depending on the daily weather. 
Buying a ticket at the gate on a sunny afternoon can make you wait for sometimes 3 or 4 hours before you can enter the park. In downtown Barcelona this would not present you with the challenge "what to do with the in-between-time?". But since the park is on the outskirts, and with no other big attractions there...one actually misses the hustle and bustle(!) which Eusebi Güell so desperately wanted to escape!              

Technical stuff
This panorama consists of 16 individual portrait situated photos, shot in RAW and in one row. The initial stitching was done with Photoshop CS6. In post-production I focused on the lighting and some areas with shadows, by using a HDR-like technique of layering several exposures settings in PS. I also addressed some coloring issues and the sharpening by adding a  high pass filter (setting 10, occupancy 43%). The original pano is 8022 x 4634 pixels and approximately 241MB. 
I made this pano from the top floor of the Pavilion at the entrance.

Taken in: España / Catalunya / Barcelona / El Carmel (show map)

Taken on: May 31, 2015

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