Parc Güell

The architect of Parc Güell is Antoni Gaudí. He was a wonderful Catalan architect of the 19th century. Gaudí was the architect of “the Pedrera”, “the Casa Batlló, “the Sagrada Familia”, etc. Antoni Gaudí was born in 1861 and died after being run over by a tram in 1926.

The Parc Güell is a fabulous amb emblematic park in Barcelona. Parc Güell was built 108 years ago. Parc Güell is situated in the north-west of the city, on a hill in the disctrict of “Gràcia”.

The main intention by Gaudí was to make a luxury urbanitzation outside Barcelona. It would include 60 houses but the original plan was never finished because the landlord didn’t have money and sold the land. The council of Barcelona bought the land and they turned the land in to a park, and hired Gaudí as the architect. The land became the park between 1900-1914.

Decoration:

The decoration of Park Güell has a lot forms. These forms are wavy-shaped with very shiny colours, mosaics, wavy-shaped columns... On the roof, there are also very beautiful mosaics, with crystals and coloured stones. In a middle of Park Güell, there is a double staircase with a big dragon.

You can see the decoration of this whole area. There are broken tiles of irregular shape. After taking the stairs, there is a big space suported by 86 columns. The beautiful roses of the roof tiles are made of glass. In a big square, called Greek theatre, there are a long twisting benches. Gaudí refused to destroy the mountain to create paths. On the contrary, he took advantge of the irregularities of the terrain. By using the real stones of the place he wanted the desing to be an integral part of the natural landscape.