Porta Gaudí de la Facultat de Farmàcia i Ciències de l'Alimentació (monument)
This gate—known as the Porta Gaudí de la Facultat de Farmàcia i Ciències de l’Alimentació, and also as the eastern access to the former Finca Güell—is one of Antoni Gaudí’s most specific pieces of symbolism in ironwork. Gaudí built the wider Güell Pavilions complex in Catalan Modernism between 1884 and 1887, after receiving the commission from his patron, Count Eusebi Güell. The design is anchored in classical myth: the main wrought-iron grille shaped like a dragon has glass eyes, and it refers to Ladon, the dragon that guarded the Garden of the Hesperides—defeated by Hercules as one of his twelve labours. Above the dragon sits an orange-tree, another Hesperides reference, while the dragon’s outline echoes the Serpens constellation, because Ladon was later turned into a snake. Crucially, the original entrance was demolished to make way for the Pharmacy faculty, and the gate you see today is a reconstruction. …
AI-generated from open data and cross-checked, with review where noted. How we write narrations
🎧 Listen in WayWhisperOfficial website ↗
