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).