Personal souvenirs: Sagrada (0:07), casaB (4:34) casaM (8:07), Guell (10:17)
Music: Bach (Toccata and Fantazia in G-dur); Handel (Messiah, For unto us a child is born); annonimous Spanish Romance (played by Nelson Amos); Falla (El Amor Brujo - Danza ritual del fuego); relaxing music (piano and birds).
TEMPLE OF THE SAGRADA FAMILIA:
Remarkable for its size and ambition, the construction of the church has started in 1882. In 1883 Gaudi took lead on the project, and totally remodelled it. The Latin Cross plan has three entrances -- and three corresponding main facades -- The Nativity (East, the oldest), The Passion (West, most recent) and The Glory (South, unfinished). The East and West facades are each adorned with 4 spectacular towers (100m high), crowned by pinnacles. More towers on the Glory facade and a massive dome (170m) are still in construction. Both The Nativity and The Passion facades are adorned with thematic sculptures. In interior, the central nave has a forest of columns in arboreal form. The Roman-Catholic church was consecrated in 2010.
CASA BATLLO:
Gaudi totally remodelled the existing building by adding two floors, and entirely removing the front facade, though achieving its colourful and personal architectural style (note the style gap with the back facades, see min 5:49). The first floor belonged to Batllo family and it is accessed by a separate stairway leading to the main gallery, displaying sinuous forms of stone and coloured glass towards the street (this can be separated into three rooms). The upper floors each hold two flats for rent while the spectacular attic -- sustained by parabolic white arches - was a communal utility space. There are two interior courts, tiled in blue colour in a chromatic gradation --lighter down and darker above. The roof has the appearance of the back of a dragoon, and it is crowned by a bulbous cross and several chimneys.
CASA MILA (LA PEDRERA):
Occupying a street corner, the three facades form one single, undulating surface, sprinkled with twisted metallic railing of the balconies. The originality of the building is showed by the entrance into the two courtyards and the brightly coloured fresco painting on the facades. A circular flat around a courtyard can be visited, furnished in period style. At the attic -- sustained by 270 parabolic arches, often compared to a giant whale -- there is a Gaudi expo which explains the Gaudian work. The big surprise comes at the roof, hosting a forest of sculptural chimneys -- though lacking the exuberant polychrome of fragmented tiles (Gaudi left the project unfinished).
PARK GUELL:
The most spectacular entrance is at Carrer Olot, between the two buildings, which originally were the porter's lodge. The monumental stairway, overlook by a multicoloured saurian, leads to the Hypostyle Hall (a forest of columns) and above that, the large public square surrounded by its famous undulating benches, each displaying colourful collage of tiles, plates and bottles. Other highlights are the arcaded galleries with leaning columns. The park is an unfinished garden city of 20 ha. Out of what was intended to be a large residential project, only one house was actually built, where Gaudi lived for 20 years (now, a museum).
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