66 triangular lots were offered for sale on a barren mountain outside the city, promoted for it's healthy atmosphere away from the industrial pollution of the urban center. The park is one of the most surreal landscapes ever built on the planet, the vision of the architect Antonio Gaudi and his wealthy patron the Count Eusebi Guell, after whom the park was named.īuilt originally as a housing development, the Park was built in response to the English garden movement that was becoming popular in Europe at the turn of the century. Park Guell is one of those emblematic places in Barcelona that was something of a pilgrimage point for me when I first visited this city 24 years ago. Window on the Pavello de Consergeria at the entrance to the park
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