Palau de les Heures
Palau de les Heures—“palacio de las hiedras,” or “palace of the ivy”—was built between 1894 and 1898 for Josep Gallart Forgas, a wealthy “indiano” who made his fortune in Puerto Rico. He commissioned the architect Augusto Font Carreras, whose design draws on a French château typology: four cylindrical towers capped with conical spires, plus a central lantern. The façade is crowned with a terracotta allegory of Las Hiedras, created by Josep Campeny. The setting matters as much as the architecture. The palace sits above the Turó de la Maria, reached through Italian Renaissance–style garden terraces with ramps and balustrades, and landscaped in multiple levels around central water basins with jets. The gardens were restored in 1999 by Patrizia Falcone, and the building now serves as the headquarters of the Fundación Bosch i Gimpera as part of the University of Barcelona’s Mundet Campus. …
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