The Park Güell is a beautiful modernist park, designed by the brilliant architect Antoni Gaudí (the architecht of La Sagrada Familia, La Casa Batlló, La Pedrera or El Palau Güell), and a perfect place to walk in a sunny day. From this natural environment, everybody can enjoy splendid views of Barcelona, as fantastic as those ones from Montjuïc Castle.
Park Güell
Park Güell
The main entrance to Park Güell in Barcelona
A mosaic in the stairway which leads to the Hipòstila Square of Park Güell
At the top of Park Güell is a terraced area where you get a fantastic view of the park and of Barcelona City
Here you will find multi-coloured tiled mosaic seats as shown in this picture. I enjoyed a lot admiring from here the beauty of this park and the fantastic views of Barcelona
I felt really comfortable sitting here in a sunny day admiring this fabulous environment designed by Antoni Gaudí
Gaudí preserved the spontaneous vegetation of the place that today constitutes a stretch of forest where Carobs, Oaks, Pines and Holm Oaks are abundant
Bird nests built by Antoni Gaudí in the terrace walls of the Park Güell. The walls imitate the trees planted on them
View of Barcelona from The Turó de les Tres Creus in Park Güell. This location was chosen to erect a large chapel, which was never built. I found the views of Barcelona from The Turó de les Tres Creus really fantastic
From this viewpoint of the Park Güell I enjoyed the view of three emblematic monuments of Barcelona: The twin towers in the Olympic Village, The Sagrada Familia and The Agbar Tower
Here you can see a walkway supported by twisting rock pillars that seem to be growing out of the ground like tree trunks
Although these are rather irregular in shape they look like strangely natural too
The Sala Hipóstila in Park Güell, which was supposed to house the garden city's market, is formed by 86 Doric columns
One of Gaudí's unique tiles in Parc Güell on the ceiling of Sala Hipóstila
Doric columns support the roof of the lower court which forms the central terrace of the Park Güell, with serpentine seating round its edge
I liked a lot this way under a curved roof and flanked by columns which looked like trunks
A really peaceful place inside the Park Guell in Barcelona
Another creation of Gaudi inside the Park Güell in perfect harmony with the environment
One of the two interesting buildings at the entrance of the Parc Guell
I also would like to give you some useful Information in case you want to visit this lovely park:
- Address: C/ Olot, 1-13.
- Opening hours: de las 10am until the sunset.
- Free tickets.
- How to get there: Bus 24 and 92, Barcelona Bus Turístic, stop Park Güell.
- Web site: www.bcn.cat/parcsijardins
Clicking on the next links you will find more pictures of the most important buildings designed by Antoni Gaudí:
- Sagrada Familia
- Park Güell
- Casa Milà (also known as La Pedrera)
- Casa Batlló
- Palau Güell
- Casa Vicens
- Col·legi de les Teresianes
- Casa Calvet
- Pabellons Güell
- Torre Bellesguard and Viaduct
- Crypt of the church of Colonia Güell
- El Capricho (built in Comillas, a lovely village in Cantabria)
Other modernist buildings you can visit in Barcelona are:
- Hospital de Sant Pau
- Palau de la Música Catalana
- La Boqueria
- Casa Fuster
- Casa Terrades or "Casa de les Punxes"
- Casa Thomas
- Casa Amatller
- Casa Lleó i Morera
- Casa Martí (Restaurant els Quatre Gats)
Besides, clicking on the next links, you will find other beautiful parks and gardens in Barcelona, like:
- Ciutadella Park
- Joan Maragall Gardens
- Pedralbes Gardens
- Laberint d'Horta Park
- Castell de l'Oreneta Park in Barcelona
- Collserola - Sant Pere Màrtir leisure area
- Collserola - Carretera de les Aigües
- Collserola - Pantà de Vallvidrera
- Torreblanca Park in Sant Feliu de Llobregat
- Can Vidalet Park in Esplugues de Llobregat
- Can Mercader Park in Cornellà de Llobregat
Finally, clicking on the next link you will find links to more beautiful and interesting places of Barcelona, among them, more interesting modernist buildings you can discover along the Modernist Route.
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