Cascada del Parc de la Ciutadella (monument)
The Cascada del Parc de la Ciutadella—also called the Gran cascada or the Cascada monumental—is a sculptural water complex built for Barcelona’s transformed civic landscape. Construction ran from 1875 to 1888, with the overall design by José Fontserè, while Antoni Gaudí worked on the hydraulic project. Its water spectacle is not anonymous decoration: the sculptural elements involved artists including Rossend Nobas and Venancio Vallmitjana, among others listed in the project. To understand why this cascade matters, you have to go back to the 18th-century Ciudadela built by Philip V to control the city after the War of the Spanish Succession. It later became a symbol of oppression, and the fortifications were ordered for demolition in 1841, only completed in 1868 after the La Gloriosa revolution. …
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