Parc Guell

Aquarium Architecture Art Museums Barri Gotic Casa Mila Chocolate Museum Elderhostel Harbor History Museum Maritime Museum Market Palau dela Musica Parc Guell Rambla Sagrada Familia Spanish Village Textile Museum

Parc Güell

Gaudi's House Terrace Tiles

 

 

Park Güell is a 17.18 hectare wide garden complex with architectural elements situated on the hill of el Carmel in the Gràcia district of Barcelona, Spain. It was designed by the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí and built in the years 1900 to 1914. It is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site "Works of Antoni Gaudí".

 

gate to the parc

The park was originally part of a commercially unsuccessful housing site, the idea of Count Eusebi de Güell, whom the park was named after. It was inspired by the English garden city movement; hence the original English name Park. The site was a rocky hill with little vegetation and few trees, called Muntanya Pelada (Bare Mountain). It already included a large country house called Larrard House or Muntaner de Dalt House, and was next to a neighborhood of upper class houses called La Salud. The intention was to exploit the fresh air (well away from smoky factories) and beautiful views from the site, with sixty triangular lots being provided for luxury houses. Count Eusebi Güell added to the prestige of the development by moving in 1906 to live in Larrard House. In the event only two houses were built, neither designed by Gaudi. One was intended to be a show house, but on being completed in 1904 was put up for sale, and as no buyers came forward Gaudi, at Güell's suggestion, bought it with his savings and moved in with his family and his father in 1906.
 

Text from Wikipedia


 

 

 

the gate to the park

 

gate detail

 

 

 

the dragon

 

 

 

 

 

Gaudi designed tile

Photos of Gaudi tiles

 

water from the dragon's mouth

 

 

 

Gaudi door

 

 

house where Gaudi lived

More Photos of Gaudi's house

 

 

gate to the Gaudi house grounds

 

the terrace

More Photos of the Terrace

 

 

 

Gaudi tiles on the terrace

More Photos of the Tiles and the Terrace


Gaudi's House Terrace Tiles

Aquarium Architecture Art Museums Barri Gotic Casa Mila Chocolate Museum Elderhostel Harbor History Museum Maritime Museum Market Palau dela Musica Parc Guell Rambla Sagrada Familia Spanish Village Textile Museum

Barcelona Basque Spain Camino de Santiago El Escorial Flamenco Dance Madrid Mallorca Salamanca San Sebastian Pamplona Toledo and Granada

World Heritage Mosaics Roman World Africa Antarctica Asia Atlantic Islands Australia Caribbean Central America Europe Indian Ocean Middle East North America Pacific Islands South America The Traveler Recent Adventures Adventure Travel

 

People and Places