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| Our LITE-BRITE hotel |
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| Jeff Koons' Puppy is 43 feet high, contains 25 tons of soil, 70,000 flowering plants and an internal irrigation system. |
Bilbao! Admittedly, all I knew about this city is in the Basque Country of Spain was what I had read about the Guggenheim. Well, that museum is definitely the centerpiece, but the city is filled with architectural gems and it is surrounded by green mountains and a river runs through it. Apparently the river used to stink very badly and was lined with closed-down factories, but then that shiny museum came. The Guggenheim Bilbao, completed in 1997, and designed by Frank Gehry is an icon of the city's transformation from a declining industrial port. This icon also happens to be "the greatest building of our time" (according to Philip Johnson)
Gosh. It was interesting to think that our hotel with candy-colored widows, that Calatrava suspension bridge and those great green lawns and wide walk-ways along the river are all very new to a city that was founded in 1300.
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