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Word: passeig (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Meanwhile, kiosks offering plants, parrots, puppies and Persian kittens occupy much of the sidewalk space on The Rambles, Barcelona's touristy retail boulevard. On Friday afternoons visitors and city residents alike mob the Passeig de Gracia because the weather's nice, they feel like it and they're happy...

Author: By Dante E.A. Ramos, | Title: ...Written on the Subway Walls | 4/9/1993 | See Source »

...moments of theater. The basement of the palace he built off the Ramblas for his main patron, Eusebi Guell, could serve as a set for The Ring -- not surprisingly, since Catalans in the 1880s were crazy for Wagner, the newest of new composers. Gaudi's Casa Mila, on Passeig de Gracia, known to Barcelonans as La Pedrera -- the Stone Quarry -- was intended to suggest a seaworn cliff, and its iron balconies fringe it like kelp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The City Homage To BARCELONA | 7/27/1992 | See Source »

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