Francesco Guicciardini (Florentine ambassador, 1511): "The majority of the houses of Barcelona are attractive, and in this it may even surpass Florence"
George Sand (French novelist, 1838): "Passing through the formidable, immense fortifications of Barcelona, with an abundance of gateways, drawbridges, posterns and bastions, everything announces a city in arms"
George Orwell (English writer, 1937): "In Barcelona I have experienced wonderful things"
Maria-Therese Hoppe (Anthropologist of the Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies, 2000): "Since the Olympic Games of 1992, Barcelona has become the stage of the city of dreams"
J. Castellar-Gassol, is the author of Gaudí. The life of a Visionary, and other books of historical dissemination. He is a member of the Catalan Centre of the International PEN Club.
