Güell Pavilions
The Güell Pavilions are best known for their entrance gates commissioned by Count Eusebi Güell and designed by Antoni Gaudí in Catalan modernism. Gaudí built the complex between 1884 and 1887, remodelling an existing estate house and adding a perimeter wall with multiple gates. The main gate was conceived as an Orientalist-style wrought-iron dragon—a figure from the Hesperides myth: Ladon, whose story is tied to Jacint Verdaguer’s poem *L’Atlàntida*—and it has glass eyes. The dragon’s form was also aligned with the Serpens constellation, because Ladon was transformed into a snake after the theft of the Hesperides’ oranges. Other entrances became obsolete when Avinguda Diagonal was built, and one grille was later moved to the Gaudí Museum in Parc Güell. …
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