An American in Barcelona by Xavier Moret (Excerpt)

It was from the top of Tibidabo—one sunny morning in the month of July 1911—that the American engineer Frederick Stark Pearson could contemplate for the first time the entire extension of the city of Barcelona. Back then, the 1,680-foot-high mountain looked quite different from today, since neither the temple nor the communications tower—two characteristic elements of the city’s current skyline—had yet been built. To be precise, the construction of the c