16 Spanish Landmarks That Are Actually Crap

    Most people would tell you these places are gorgeous, but these TripAdvisor users know better.

    Marie Telling
    by Marie Telling

    BuzzFeed Staff

    We kept the grammar and spelling mistakes from the original reviews in our retranscription.

    1. La Pedrera, Barcelona: "Pure trash hated it!"

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    "Trash – Pure trash hated it!Pure trash hated it!Pure trash hated it!Pure trash hated it!Pure trash hated it!Pure trash hated it!Pure trash hated it!Pure trash hated it!Pure trash hated it!" Find the review here.

    2. The Alhambra, Granada: "So so."

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    "Castle was very big and wide. And I could feel the islam culture.

    But, there was no impressive to me. Buildings, gardens, sculptures etc. was not special. Just normal." Find the review here.

    3. La Sagrada Familia, Barcelona: "It looks like too many cooks in the kitchen."

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    "Ugly – As my girlfriend said: Basilica Sagrada, ruining the Barcelona skyline for two centuries. It looks like too many cooks in the kitchen." Find the review here.

    4. Royal Palace, Madrid: "Old."

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    "Palacio??? – Old, not at all atractive, and it seems they don't really live there..." Find the review here.

    5. The Alcázar, Seville: "Seen better Palaces."

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    "I guess when one has covered many cities,visited many Palaces it is hard not to be a critic. I was disappointed with this Palace.Worth a visit if one is interested in ceramics." Find the review here.

    6. Museo del Prado, Madrid: "Dreary......is probably an understatement ....."

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    "Unless you have a penchant for old masters or religious iconography, life's just far too short to spend time here. The place is full of people wandering round looking bored to tears and wishing they hadn't listened to the people who told them they must visit." Find the review here.

    7. Mosque–Cathedral, Córdoba: "Not so great."

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    "There is much more to see in Serville, go there. Not that much to see here. If you have to go, go in the morning for free." Find the review here.

    8. Retiro park, Madrid: "Its a park."

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    "its a big green park?? nice but most of us have one xx" Find the review here.

    9. Catedral de Santa María de la Sede, Seville: "Why big is not always beautiful."

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    "It is huge and not beautiful and pretty uninteresting." Find the review here.

    10. Plaza de España, Seville: "Boring!"

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    "I have no idea why this is on top of the list !! This place has absolutely nothing to do or see except a large building surrounded by gardens." Find the review, here.

    11. Plaza Mayor, Madrid: "Yuk, yuk, yuk."

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    "So come to Plaza Mayor they say. Ummm ... Why would you bother?" Find the review, here.

    12. Cathedral of Santa Maria, Palma, Majorca: "Not my kind of thing anywhere."

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    "Waste of building – Nothing much to see except for a few dummy human brains and dummy turtles for decoration. Not my kind of thing anywhere." Find the review, here.

    13. Plaza de Cibeles, Madrid: "Just a square."

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    "It's just a square with a fountain in the middle of a motorway and a with building on the side that looks like a sugar pie. Certainly not worth the trip or 5 stars." Find the review, here.

    14. The Guggenheim museum, Bilbao: "This is ugly showing off."

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    "The emperor has no clothes — It’s by the river, opposite the old town. All odd shapes and wasted space and clad in Titanium rectangles. Seems you either love it or don’t. I didn’t, the classic buildings opposite have beauty, this is ugly showing off." Find the review, here.

    15. Casa Batlló, Barcelona: "It looks like a pile of recycled junk to me."

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    "Ugly — This monstrosity is a modernist house built by Barcelona's most famous son, Antonio Gaudi (more on Gaudi in my review of Sagrada Familia). It looks like a pile of recycled junk to me. Maybe you'll like it. I did not go inside, I would not do it, even if admission were free. Which it is not." Find the review, here.

    16. Cathedral, Santiago de Compostella: "Ghastly and irreverent."

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    "Over-rated structure built with unfair taxes on early pilgrims. Too ostentatious and grandiose for my liking." Find the review here.