Park Güell – Gaudi’s abandoned garden city in Barcelona
Offering exotic art nouveau sculpture and landscaping, stunning views across the city, a breath of fresh air and a sense of perspective, Park Güell is a must see if you are visiting Barcelona. Gaudi’s original brief was for a garden city. His client, industrialist Eusebi Güell whom the park is named after, was an anglophile and admirer of the English garden city movement, and for this reason the English word Park was used in the name rather than its Catalan equivalent Parc. The site at the ...
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