{"id":4107,"date":"2012-04-11T00:10:33","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T23:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.traveleurope.com\/en\/?p=4107"},"modified":"2013-09-25T23:55:50","modified_gmt":"2013-09-25T22:55:50","slug":"gaudis-barcelona-a-trip-to-parc-guell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.traveleurope.com\/en\/gaudis-barcelona-a-trip-to-parc-guell\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaud\u00ed\u2019s Barcelona: a Trip to Parc G\u00fcell"},"content":{"rendered":"

Named after Count Eusebi Guell, Gaud\u00ed\u2019s Parc G\u00fcell<\/strong> lies on a rocky hill overlooking Barcelona<\/a><\/strong>. It became a public park in 1922 and is a Unesco World Heritage Site since 1984. Its shapes and colors were inspired by natural forms which Gaud\u00ed, a devout catholic, saw as instances of divine craftsmanship\u2026<\/p>\n

So colorful, so joyful, and so unlike any other park in the world, Parc G\u00fcell, a true Gaud\u00ed Wonderland<\/strong>,\u00a0is a must stop when visiting Barcelona, and the first stop in a tour of the artist\u2019s works in the city, ok the second \u2013 after the Sagrada Familia<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Parc G\u00fcell<\/strong> is probably the best and most famous example of Art Nouveau landscape-architecture<\/strong>. It was commissioned by Eusebi G\u00fcell, who wanted to create a stylish park for Barcelona aristocracy, there on what Gaud\u00ed described as \u2018the treeless mountain<\/em>\u2018. Both men intended that the project would express the spirit of Catalonia as a potentially independent nation.<\/p>\n

The park is beautiful for its serpentine terraces, seats, galleries decorated with mosaics of broken ceramics, a unique Gaud\u00ed trademark. It contains amazing stone structures, stunning tiling and fascinating buildings.<\/p>\n

At the entrance, visitors are welcomed by a grand dragon-like mosaic lizard<\/strong>, wonderfully adorned in beautiful coloured tiling<\/a><\/strong>, perfectly restored after the vandalism occurred in 2007. The vibrant colors of the tiles are still truly breathtaking.<\/p>\n

Gaud\u00ed was strongly influenced by natural shapes, and used them extensively in his work. Walking in, you see a walkway supported by twisting rock pillars that seem to be growing out of the ground like tree trunks.<\/p>\n

The park was planned as an underground market. A grand entrance, 3km of paths, a marvelous terraced area which enjoys a superb view over the park and the city, a stunning hypostyle hall, also known as the \u201cHall of 100 columns,\u201d whose roof is decorated with lovely mosaics.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s generally overlooked that some of the best mosaics in the Park G\u00fcell have to be ascribed to Gaud\u00ed\u2019s collaborator, architect Josep Maria Jujol<\/a><\/strong>. These include the overhead medallions in the above mentioned hypostyle hall, and the multi-colored serpentine bench on the terrace.<\/p>\n

Parc G\u00fcell also hosts a small house \u2013 La Torre Rosa \u2013 which Gaud\u00ed lived for the last 20 years of his life. The house has now been converted into a museum and contains interesting furniture designed by the artist, drawings and some personal objects<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Parc G\u00fcell is open daily: November to February from 10am\u20136pm; March & October from 10am\u20137pm; April & September from 10am\u20138pm; May to August from 10am\u20139pm. Admission is free, except Gaud\u00ed\u2019s home \u2013 well worth 4 Euros.<\/p>\n

Photo by Alex E. Proimos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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