{"id":13136,"date":"2017-11-18T17:51:02","date_gmt":"2017-11-18T17:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/quench\/?p=13136"},"modified":"2017-11-18T17:53:12","modified_gmt":"2017-11-18T17:53:12","slug":"barcelona-go-200-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk\/quench\/travel\/barcelona-go-200-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona &#8211; Why you should go&#8230; in under 200 words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a few hours away, Barcelona is an excellent cityscape perfect to overcome your summer blues. With an average daytime temperature of 21 degrees, this Catalan city is perfect for walking around and seeing what it has to offer. The city itself is an open museum with Antoni Gaudi&#8217;s masterpieces on display around Barcelona, including his magnum opus: La Sagrada Familia, which is still in the process of being built. 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