Casa Batllo, Barcelona, ​​Spain PDF Print E-mail
    Building 1877 and restored by architects Antonio Gaudi and Josep Maria Huhol Casa Batllo (Batllo House) became one of the most famous monuments of the Catalan Modernism. Over time, name of the second architect has been forgotten and today the house associated exclusively with Gaudi. Local call this landmark «House of bones» (Casa dels ossos), as some of its parts resemble the bones of the skeleton.

Nevertheless, luxuriant imagination Gaudi allowed him to find inspiration in almost all the surrounding objects.
Thus, the overlap between the windows resemble human bones, balcony lattice similar to the jaws of a shark, a decorative tower has a dome in the form of poppy heads.

It seems that the architect was to completely avoid straight lines. Most of the facade is decorated with a mosaic of fragments of ceramic tiles, the color of which varies from a golden-orange to greenish-blue. The roof is curved and is similar to the back of a dragon or a dinosaur. A common theory is that the round element on the left of center, ending at the top of a turret and cross, represents the sword of St.
George, patron of Catalonia, pierced the dragon's back.

The interior of the building is no less original than its facade. You will see the great doors of the apartments, decorated with superb carvings, lined with blue and white pit ladder and not to everyone else's furniture, commissioned by Gaudí. No less original and solutions selected for ceilings. Thus, in one room the ceiling is twisted into a whirlwind, topped with a crystal chandelier in a different light-show through «slots» in the ceiling.


How to get:
You can take bus number 7, 16, 17, 20, 22, 24, 28, 39, 43, 44, 45, 47, 54, 56, 63, 67, 68, or on the subway: line L3 (green) line L4 (yellow), the line L24 (purple) - Station «Passeig de Gracia», line L1 (red) - Station «Universitat» or «C».