As Italo Calvino has said, when according to various circumstances he proclaims that "the city for him who passes without entering it is one thing, and another for him who is caught and does not go out; One thing is the city where one arrives for the first time, another one that one leaves to not return there; Each one has a different name", or when time ago the filmmaker Xavier Juncosa told me" he likes to think that nobody has the exclusive of reality, that someone sees, another appreciates it differently and the contrast between them Various forms of opinion generate an enrichment for what is observed. "
True, there are several ways of seeing the city and attending to that "she has the power", that the Manolos with their "rumbling gracejo" set up and reiterated, Barcelona, often, is seen from an optics that we could call "at street level" and that is what our daily tarannar obliges us. Now, in contrast to our most particular way of perceiving the city, other inhabitants, the so-called "intrepid" and other "pigeons" enjoy that with a vision that curiously allows to see it in a more form Global and that is also what the urban planners serve when they design that one. This vision called " in bird flight " is achievable in BCN going up to the viewpoints or watchtowers of the city that is where one can experience the sensations that give faith, for example, both the legend of Icar and more recently the confessions of " Onofre Bouvila to Maria Belltall, in the novel "THE CITY OF PRODIGIES" by Eduardo de Mendoza, and yet allows us to enjoy the old domain that represents having the "world at our feet".