25) Gaudi's Parc Güell

In 1884, Gaudí designed the pavilions of the Güell estate, with porter's lodge and stables, in the suburban areas of Barcelona. Most spectacular is the imaginative dragon gate. The Parc Güell (1900-14), a garden-city of 60 lots, is an incontestable masterpiece, the final blossoming of 19th-century eclecticism. 

    "Gaudi resolved the dialogue between architecture and nature in a dramatic and exceptional manner by increasing the tension between the two principles. His mastery of the most diverse structures and materials allows him to invent a unique world that is at the same time full of symbolic references."

MUHBA (Museu d'Història de Barcelona)

"Güell and Gaudí (the co-creators of Park Güell), both had a solid humanistic background and deep religious convictions, and shared a deep-rooted Catalanist patriotism.

But beyond its artistic evaluation, Park Güell is one of the most notable expressions of the wish for representation and capital-city aspirations of the industrial elites of Barcelona at the dawn of the 20th century."

MUHBA ( Museo d'Història de Barcelona)