National Geographic’s 1929 visit captured the charm of the Spanish city from the bustling produce markets and the blue seas to the extravagant Sagrada Familia early in its construction.
Back of the city of Barcelona, in the northeast corner of the Iberian Peninsula, rises the hill El Tibidabo. From its summit there is an all-embracing view of encircling pine-clad hills, with the snowy range of the Pyrenees far away to the north. Below, outspread on the sloping plain, between the green of the Catalonian hills and the blue of the Mediterranean Sea, lies the great industrial mart and chief port of Spain, with Madrid as its only national rival in population and progress.
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