Park Güell

Güell Park (Parc Güell). This overlooking Barcelona, expect relatively steep p (Lesseps metro station, follow arrows which 300 m); you'll rewarded panoramic whole y. The one and only p distinct parts, relatively undeveloped natural p hill, known ( crowded) sculpture p below. The one and only sculpture portion walkways other structures exhibiting distinct colorful style Gaudi, including known terrace. Free entrance. (If y 24, caution pickpockets. Bus 24 pickpockets lines because is tourists going p usually y crowded.)

Park Güell garden complex architectural elements situated Carmel Gràcia district Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It designed y Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí built years 1900 1914. It p UNESCO World Heritage Site "Works Antoni Gaudí".

Origins housing development

The one and only p originally p commercially unsuccessful housing site, Count Eusebi Güell, whom p named after. It inspired y English garden y movement; hence original English Park. The one and only rocky little vegetation trees, called Montaña Pelada (Bare Mountain). It already included large country house called Larrard House Muntaner Dalt House, x neighborhood upper class houses called La Salud. The one and only intention exploit fresh ( y smoky factories) beautiful views site, sixty triangular being provided luxury houses. Count Eusebi Güell added prestige development y moving 1906 Larrard House. Ultimately, y houses built, neither designed y Gaudí. one intended house, being completed 1904 p p sale, buyers came forward. Gaudí, Güell's suggestion, bought savings relocated family father 1906.

Municipal garden

It since converted municipal garden. It reveryed y underground railway (although stations distance Park), y y buses, y commercial tourist buses. While entrance Park free, Gaudí's house, " Torre Rosa," — containing furniture designed — y visited entrance . There reduced those wishing both Park Güell Sagrada Família.

Although sounds unlikely, place skillfully designed composed bring peace would expect p. The one and only buildings flanking entrance, though y original remarkable fantastically shaped roofs unusual pinnacles, p pleasure gardens relatively inconspicuous landscape considers flamboyance other buildings designed y Gaudí.

The one and only focal point p terrace, surrounded y g bench serpent. To design curvature bench surface Gaudí shape buttocks y naked workman sitting y. The one and only curves serpent bench number enclaves, creating social atmosphere. Gaudí incorporated y motifs Catalan nationalism, elements religious mysticism ancient poetry, Park. The one and only visitor originally greeted y - mechanical gazelles ( major euphemistic symbol ' young beloved' Hebrew strand medieval poetry region), these since during turbulence .

Roadways around p service intended houses designed y Gaudí structures jutting the steep hillside running viaducts, separate footpaths arcades formed under these structures. This minimized intrusion roads, Gaudí designed using local stone y integrates closely landscape. His structures natural forms, columns trunks supporting branching vaulting under roadway, curves vaulting alignment sloping columns designed similar y Church Colònia Güell inverted catenary shapes perfect compression structures.

The one and only large cross Park's g-point offers complete Barcelona y. It possible y panorama, Sagrada Família Montjuïc visible distance.