Sunday, January 21, 2007

Barcelona, Spain - Park Güell

Mysterious walkway

Earlier, we had a couple posts highlighting the architecture of Antoni Gaudí. In the late 1800s, he was commissioned by a wealthy Frenchman, Count Eusebi de Güell, to design his housing site in the manner of an English garden.

Construction took place from 1900 to 1914. The commercial housing project was unsuccessful and the site was converted into a municipal gardens. I'll let the pictures do the talking.

Entrance with stairs leading to the terrace

One of many walking paths

Curved, elevated walkway

Another elevated walkway

Indescribable

A building within the park

Overhead view of terrace

Doric columns supporting terrace

View of house from portico

The curl of a stone wave

The terrace and Doric columns from afar

5 comments:

Devastatin' Dave said...

It's all about execution. I'm surprised you got down to the "comments" link, considering how much scrolling that took.

'Stone Works' said...
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'Stone Works' said...

Nice Photo's DD. How comes there's never any pictures of the visiting Smith clan, are they all as scary as you?

Devastatin' Dave said...

Stone Works,

No, less scary, but their lack of scariness would only accentuate mine, which is bad for business and my street cred.

Devastatin' Dave said...

That little cafe at the back of the terrace got me for 3€ once for an 8oz. bottle of water.