Park Guell
Park Güell—Parc Güell in Catalan, Parque Güell in Spanish—is a landscaped complex where Antoni Gaudí’s Catalan modernism turns into architecture you can walk through. The project was commissioned by Eusebi Güell, a Catalan industrialist and art patron, during Barcelona’s late-19th and early-20th-century expansion, and it sits on the southern slope of the Turó del Carmel hill in the Collserola range, overlooking the city. Construction ran from 1900 to 1914, and the park officially opened to the public in 1926. You may sense why the site became so influential: Gaudí was working in the first decade of the 1900s, in what’s often described as his naturalist period, when he studied nature’s forms and used geometric analysis to reach structural solutions. In the park, curved, undulating benches became a visual signature that he later developed further in the Sagrada Família. …
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