The Amazing Houses of Gaudí

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17th January



Barcelona - A walk with Josep The Amazing Houses of Gaudí: Casa Batlló & Casa Milà / La Pedrera



Passeig de Gracia (Walk of Grace).

An elegant, majestic boulevard with so many wonderful architectural buildings.



On either side of the avenue the jewels of Catalonia's home-grown art nouveau, modernisme, and the later movement, noucentisme, by architects Gaudí, Puig i Cadafalch, & Domènech i Muntaner to name just three.



Casa Batlló. This building by Gaudi has a fantastical theme, with a pastel coloured mosaic front, mask-like balconies and a roof in the shape of a dragon's tail.



La Pedrera. The 2nd largest building by Gaudi. The complex wrought-iron grilles of the 32 balconies were made using scrap iron sheets, bars and chains in an unusual way.



On the pavement we saw the organic paving stones. The pavement was placed in 1997 to honor Antoni Gaudí, mosaic of hexagonal shapes that the architect designed in 1904 for the floors in the Casa Batllo.

Along the boulevard are decorative streetlamps by Pere Falqués, with their white-mosaic benches.

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