If Miguel de Unamuno were to resurrect in Barcelona, he would certainly never repeat those oft-paraphrased words of his: "Catalans are doomed by aesthetics." Gaudí, on the other hand, if he were to appear near one of his emblematic monuments, might think they have turned those places "into a shop of thieves." Just a few meters from La Pedrera, he would find enormous shop windows displaying diapers, bottles of alcohol, all kinds of tourist trinkets, and T-shirts with offensive slogans.