Fodor's Expert Review La Cascada
Barcelona
Fountain
The sights and sounds of Barcelona seem far away when you stand near this monumental two-tiered fountain by Josep Fontseré, presented as part of the 1888 Universal Exhibition. The waterfall's somewhat overwrought arrangement of rocks was the work of a young architecture student named Antoni Gaudí—his first public work, appropriately natural and organic, and certainly a hint of things to come.