A monumentally informed and irresistibly opinionated guide to the most un-Spanish city in Spain, from the bestselling author of iThe Fatal Shorei. p In these pages, Robert Hughes scrolls through Barcelona's often violent history tells the stories of its kings, poets, magnates, and revolutionaries and ushers readers through municipal landmarks that range from Antoni Gaudi's sublimely surreal cathedral to a postmodern restaurant with a glass-walled urinal. The result is a work filled with the attributes of Barcelona itself proportion, humor, and isenyi--the Catalan word for triumphant common sense.