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Colònia Güell Crypt, Front View
Photograph by Manuel Cohen/DRR.net
The Colònia Güell Crypt is classic Gaudí, located on a textile estate in Santa Coloma de Cervelló, just outside Barcelona.
Glory Façade
Photograph by Manuel Cohen/DRR.net
Many consider the incomplete Glory Façade of Gaudí’s La Sagrada Família, with its luminous rose window, his most impressive.
La Sagrada Família
Photograph by Oote Boe/GalileoPix/DRR.net
Antoni Gaudí’s ambitious plans for the church of La Sagrada Família remained unrealized at his death in 1926.
Passion Façade
Photograph by Manuel Cohen/DRR.net
One of the façades at Gaudí’s Sagrada Família, known as the Passion Façade, features sculptures by Josep Maria Subirachs.
Parc Güell Dragon
Photograph by Manuel Cohen/DRR.net
Fanciful mosaic creatures inhabit Barcelona’s Parc Güell, built by Gaudí.
Colònia Güell Crypt, Side View
Photograph by Manuel Cohen/DRR.net
Building the Colònia Güell Crypt outside Barcelona, architect Antoni Gaudí tested out building techniques he was later to use at his famed La Sagrada Família cathedral.
Casa Milà—La Pedrera
Photograph by Manuel Cohen/DRR.net
The undulating cornices and ceramic roof of Casa Milà (also known as La Pedrera) mark this as one of Gaudí’s classic residential buildings.
Passion Façade
Photograph by Manuel Cohen/DRR.net
The Passion Façade, completed in the late 1980s by the sculptor Josep Maria Subirachs, is one of two completed façades on Gaudí’s Sagrada Família.
La Pedrera Chimney
Photograph by Manuel Cohen/DRR.net
The rooftop of Gaudí’s Casa Milà (known as “La Pedrera”) is marked with undulating forms and Stormtrooper-like helmeted spires.
Casa Batllo
Scott B. Rosen
Looking through the distorted glass in Antoni Gaudi's Casa Batllo, Barcelona, Spain