Portal Miralles (monument)
Portal Miralles is more than an entrance gate: it records a working relationship between Antoni Gaudí and an industrial client. In 1901, the industrialist Hermenegildo Miralles commissioned Gaudí to design the boundary wall and access door for his estate in Sarrià. The project shows Catalan modernism, but the built work also carries a baroque influence that runs alongside Gaudí’s contemporaneous projects, such as the Casa Calvet. Gaudí did not build the main house himself; Miralles’s house was carried out by his assistant, Domingo Sugrañes. What survives here is the most distinctive part of Gaudí’s contribution: a wavy section of wall made with white trencadís, topped by a metal grill shaped like a fishing net, and a gate crowned with a three-dimensional wrought-iron cross—the original cross is preserved at the Casa-Museu Gaudí in Park Güell, while the version here is a replica. …
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