What do you get when an architect designs a city? A collection of eccentric-looking buildings along the Mediterranean. La Grande-Motte is a French beachside resort town. Spain has dozens of these that attract their French neighbors. However, someone got smart and built this town in France about fifty years ago. Now there are many beach towns along the French Mediterranean, and no need to cross into Spain for a holiday. Not that there is anything wrong with Spanish beach towns. Before I took this, I was in Lloret de Mar, which is just outside of Barcelona, and it was just as fun, and just as full of French tourists.
Here is a close up view that T took with the telephoto lens fully extended. The tenth level is the observatijon deck according to Wikipedia. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torre_de_Collserola)
This tower is one of the first things you see in Barcelona. However, in my case, it took me by surprise. It was raining, so I had it in my mind to drive up the mountain and visit the Sagrat Cor church. However, the clouds created a thick blanket of fog, and it was difficult to see more than a hundred feet. As I stood outside the church, the clouds began to thin, and the tower appeared rather dramatically. The tower sits atop the Tibidabo mountain and overlooks Barcelona. If I had Googled it, I would have known that it's open to the public on weekends — something to add to my next visit.
