Casa Batlló

"Qui us la fa la casa, en Domenech, en Gaudi o en Puig y Cadafalch?" meaning "Who will build the house for you, Domenech, Gaudi or Puig y Cadafalch?" The Grand Master Gaudi was the winner... (1904-1906)

The flat doors have not been numbered in the usual way, but follow the letters of the alphabet starting at the bottom and going up

Chromatic graduation of tiles dominated by cobalt and dark blue as well as sky blue and pearl grey

Spiral stairway

The chimneys rise up each stretching out their helicoid trunk covered in trencadis of glass and colours and showing off their pointed conical cap, hoods with ceramic borders topped by balls which were originally made of glass and filled with different coloured sand

Rear facade

Courtyard

Casa Milà (La Pedrera)

The giants of the terrace are abstractions of human figures carrying symbols, such as the crosses of petals and the circles with crosses. All of them are sinuous with forms that play with the positive and the negative

The bodies of the warriors-chimneys are marked by enigmatic signs that emphasise their disturbing appearance

As Gaudi himself suggested, the terrace of the Casa Mila is a complex and changing 17th century religious play of allegorical figures watched over by an army of chimneys. These represent the characters of the grand theatre of the world. They are symbols of the family, parents, sons, daughters, lovers and warriors...

White marble trencadis mosaic

The building is formed around two large courtyards through which light enters into all the homes.

Recreation of a flat of the time

Perhaps the biggest abstract sculpture in existence. In this building Gaudi fulfilled the ambition of bringing together all the arts in one work, as a supreme objective of artistic creation. In La Pedrera what is below is similar to that which is above, stone is water and truth is falsehood. La Pedrera is the cosmos (1906-1912).

Casa Antoni Amatller

Designed by the exceptional artist Josep Puig i Cadafalch. Immediately in front of the entrance a tile in the ground marks the 0 km of the European Route of Modernism. Touches of roman, gothic and baroque styles, wrought iron, glasswork and mosaics give a medieval feeling

Poble Espanyol

Spain in Catalonia! Built in 1929 for the Barcelona International Exhibition, this village-in-the-city contains the main characteristics of all spanish towns and villages