Torre Bellesguard
Bellesguard—better known as Casa Figueras—is one of Antoni Gaudí’s rare manor houses, built from 1900 to 1909 in a Catalan modernism idiom. The site itself carries a deeper Catalan storyline: the land beneath it had been a country residence belonging to Martin, King of Aragon and Count of Barcelona, and later a medieval castle erected for that same monarch in the early 15th century. When King Martin died without an heir in 1410, his widow Margaret of Prades inherited the estate, and after her death the castle slowly fell into decline. In 1900, Jaume Figueras and María Sagues Molíns commissioned Gaudí. He worked with Joan Rubió, while Domènec Sugrañes i Gras created mosaics for the house, blending the “beautiful view” of its name—*Bellesguard*—with neogothic echoes of the medieval ruins and Gaudí’s unmistakably modern forms. …
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