Please help my friend spite his landlord– Can anyone identify the location of this stock photo taken in Barcelona? (explanation in comments)

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1. So my friend Lucas lives in a sharehouse in Sydney, Australia and the landlord is always coming in and re-arranging furniture, taking posters off the walls that he doesn’t like, generally moving shit around in a house he doesn’t live in and it’s really annoying.

   Recently the last straw came when Lucas put up a mirror in the common room which was taken down and inexplicably replaced with this awful photo of a red Vespa.
   http://imgur.com/7aaTBVq

   I want to help him get revenge with a degree of effort that his landlord will never see coming. I want to identify the exact spot that this photo was taken in, and get someone local to take a photo of themselves standing there in place of the bike, looking at themselves in a hand mirror and giving the camera the finger with their other hand. We’ll then print that up on a canvas and hang it in the same spot.

   I thought this was Rome at first but someone at /r/italy discovered here that it’s taken in Barcelona: http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-33202039/stock-photo-red-vintage-scooter-parked-in-the-streets-of-barcelona.html?src=4I01QEbmEUxQSvuekaSVAQ-1-0

   Does anyone recognise the spot?? The tags in the background might be a clue??

   Gracias 😀

2. Wouldn’t this have been easier and looked better by just photoshopping?

3. Brilliant!!! This is beyond epic!!! People helping people on opposite ends of the planet. It’s thing like this that make me proud to be a redditor. Almost makes me teary-eyed. =D

4. Props on the best idea ever. I never would have thought of such a clever way! Also as an added bonus, the angle is slightly different so he’ll know it wasn’t just photoshopped

5. update?

6. C’mon landlord

7. awesome! I enjoyed reading this one 🙂

8. I would hang that in my apartment. It’s a pretty cool shot.

9. that it then?