Creations of Antoni Gaudi. Barcelona❤️Gaudi: Excursion to the last private apartment in Casa Mila

The unusual architecture of Antonio Gaudí is the decoration of Barcelona. In the capital of Catalonia, 14 buildings of the master of modernism have been preserved: Sagrada Familia, Park Güell, houses, small architectural forms. All the masterpieces of Gaudí in Barcelona with a map and description. Addresses, opening hours, ticket prices, what to watch for free and how to avoid standing in lines.

Before you go to see Gaudí's creations, plan your time and calculate your budget. The sights of Barcelona are among the most popular and expensive in Europe. You can spend 2 hours waiting in line at the Sagrada Familia, and a ticket to Casa Batlló costs €23.50.

What to do? Choose only the most interesting places with paid entrance and book tickets online. In many cases, you can limit yourself to an external examination or visit a free part.

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Casa Batlló

A feature of the Casa Batlló is the almost complete absence of straight lines. The facade of the building depicts the shining scales of a monster with the bones and skulls of its victims.

• address: Passeig de Gracia 43
• opening hours: Mon-Sun 9:00-21:00
• tickets: €23.50/€20.50
• 20% discount with Barcelona City Pass

House Mila (Casa Milà, La Pedrera)

The last secular work of Gaudi, an example of Catalan modernism. The panoramic rooftop terrace is decorated with sculptures of mythological creatures that perform the practical function of ventilation.

• address: Carrer de Provenca 261
• opening hours:
  • from March 3 to November 1 Mon-Sun 9:00-20:30
  • from November 2, Mon-Sun 9:00-18:30
• tickets: €22/€16.50/€11
• Mila's house at night - night tour, projections in the rooms, audiovisual show on the roof of the terrace, a glass of champagne.
• 20% discount with Barcelona City Pass

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House Vicens (Casa Vicens)

Built in Mudéjar style with ceramic finishes and a parabolic arch. Gaudí's first major order from manufacturer Manuel Vicens. Included in the UNESCO World Heritage List (2005). For a long time it was privately owned, opened to the public in November 2017.

• address: Carrer de les Carolines 24
• opening hours:
  • Mon-Sun 10:00-18:00
• tickets: €16/€14

Gaudí is an outstanding Catalan architect who created many famous buildings in Barcelona. World history knows not so many architects who have so strongly influenced the views of their cities and created something so significant for their national culture. Gaudí is the most famous architect in Spain. His work marked the peak of Spanish Art Nouveau. A feature of his style is that the sources of the architect's fantasies were natural forms (trees, clouds, animals, rocks). It was nature that primarily determined the work of the sculptor and architect Gaudí in solving various problems, both artistic and constructive.

The architect did not like closed spaces, as well as geometrically correct forms. Therefore, he fundamentally refused straight lines. He believed that a straight line is a product of man, while a circle is a product of God. Therefore, Antonio Gaudi used only curved surfaces, creating his own original style. The architect Gaudi and his houses are known far beyond the borders of Catalonia and Spain.

Life and work of Gaudí

The architect was born on June 25, 1852, not far from Barcelona. His family belonged to the dynasty of hereditary masons. In 1868 he moved to Barcelona and there in 1873-78. studied at the Higher Technical School of Architecture, and also mastered various crafts (blacksmithing, carpentry, etc.) in the workshop of E. Punti.

In 1870-82. was engaged in the implementation of applied orders (sketches of lanterns, fences, etc.) in the workshop of F. Villar and E. Sala. His first building, which can be considered independent (the fountain in Catalan Square in 1877), demonstrated the brightness and quirkiness of Gaudí's imagination.

Antonio Gaudi tragically died on 06/07/1926 in Barcelona. He was hit by a tram not far from the Sagrada Familia. The architect at the end of his life behaved strangely, walked in an untidy form, so he was brought to a hospital for the poor, in which he died. Buried in the Sagrada Familia.

The origins of the architect's own style

In Western Europe at that time neo-Gothic reigned. In his youth, Gaudí adhered to the ideas of such neo-Gothic representatives as the French architect Viollet-le-Duc (the largest restorer of Gothic temples in the 19th century, who restored, in particular, Notre Dame Cathedral) and the English art historian John Ruskin, author of the article “Decorativeness is the beginning of architecture”, which completely coincided with the thoughts of Gaudi himself and for many years was the code of his work. However, he was most influenced by Catalan Gothic, which combined European and Moorish motifs in an interesting way. It is this combination that permeates the architecture of Antonio Gaudi.

This building was built in 1880-83. During its construction, the architect applied the polychrome effects characteristic of ceramic cladding. The buildings of Gaudí, built in his "mature" period, are distinguished by the use of this technique. This house by Gaudi was built for the owner of the ceramics factory, M. Vicens, and looked like a fairy-tale palace. In an effort to realize the desire of the building’s customer, the industrialist Vicens, to see the “kingdom of ceramics” in this house, the architect used iridescent multi-colored majolica tiles to cover the walls, decorated the ceilings with stucco “stalactites”, and installed fancy gazebos and lanterns in the courtyard.

The residential building itself and the buildings in the garden made up a wonderful architectural ensemble, for the creation of which Gaudí first tested his subsequently crowning techniques: ceramic decoration in large quantities, plastic flowing forms, bold combinations of elements of different styles, contrasts of dark and light, vertical and horizontal elements, etc.

In 1891, the architect received an order for a new cathedral in Barcelona - a temple (that is, the temple of the "Holy Family"). This building was the maximum manifestation of his imagination. Realizing the great importance of this building as a symbol of the entire national revival of Catalonia, Gaudí completely concentrated on its construction from 1910, placing his own workshop here.

The style of the cathedral is similar to Gothic, but contains something new, more modern. This building can accommodate a choir with 1,500 singers, 5 organs, and a children's choir of 700 people. The cathedral was to become a major center of Catholicism. Its construction was supported by the then Pope Leon the 13th.

Although Gaudi was engaged in the construction of this temple for 35 years, he managed to build and decorate only the Nativity facade, which in a constructive sense represents the eastern part of the transept, with 4 towers above it, while the western part of the apse, which makes up most of the entire monumental cathedral, remains unfinished to this day. The construction of the Sagrada Familia continues to this day.

Casa Batlló

This is one of Gaudí's most famous buildings, built in 1904-06. and became the fruit of his original fantasy, which had a purely literary origin. The house is the epitome of the story of St. George slaying the dragon. The 2 lower floors resemble the skeleton of a dragon, the wall - dragon skin, the roof with a peculiar pattern - a dragon spine. On the roof there is a small tower and chimneys, which have various intricate shapes. They are finished with ceramics and combined into several groups.

The project masterfully used color harmony and plasticity of the material. The sculptural decoration of the building looks like it consists of living forms that are frozen for only a moment. The completion of this decor is the design of the roof, which resembles a dragon's back.

Among the architectural masterpieces of Gaudi is (1906-10) - the famous building of the Art Nouveau style, which was nicknamed "La Pedrera" (i.e. "quarry") because of its quirkiness. It is a 6-storey apartment building located on the corner, with 2 courtyards and 6 light wells.

The whole building as a whole and each individual apartment in it have a curvilinear complex layout. Initially, the architect tried to make each internal partition curved, but later he had to abandon this idea and give them a broken shape that creates a contrast with the wavy facade. For Casa Mila, new solutions were used in terms of construction: the absence of load-bearing internal walls, the support of interfloor ceilings by external walls and columns, the important structural significance of balconies.

The magical houses of Gaudí are located mainly in Barcelona, ​​since it was there that Antonio Gaudí lived and worked. Of course, not only Gaudí created modern Barcelona. The city knew many talented architects in a relatively short period of time, called the Catalan Renaissance. In addition to Gaudí's Barcelona, ​​there is also modern Barcelona, ​​Gothic Barcelona, ​​and the "Spanish Village" district, which embodies the styles of all Spanish provinces, and the famous Rambla - the area of ​​\u200b\u200bold Barcelona. But Gaudí's Barcelona is something special, incomparable. The thirteen objects (not always buildings) built by Gaudí in Barcelona give it its own character and charm and are an irresistible attraction for tourists.

At the beginning of Gaudi's independent work, his first, richly decorated, early modern projects were built:

"Stylistic twins" - elegant House of Vicens (Barcelona)

Quirky El Capricho (mood) (Comillas, Cantabria).

As well as the compromise pseudo-baroque Calvet House (Barcelona) - the only building recognized and loved by the townspeople during his lifetime (by the way, the house was built without a single load-bearing wall inside).

Gaudi was extremely unsociable and even closed. Even cruel to people. Gaudi never married. From childhood he suffered from rheumatism, which prevented games with other children, but did not interfere with long solitary walks, to which he was addicted all his life. He did not recognize luxury and wealth, he ate somehow and dressed somehow. when it came to him personally. But at the same time he built luxurious buildings. there were no records left of Gaudi, he had no close friends. And many circumstances of his life are still not clear. Kalvet's house inside:

Decisive for the flourishing of the young architect was his meeting with Eusebi Güell. Gaudí later became a friend of Güell. This textile magnate, the richest man in Catalonia, not alien to aesthetic insights, could afford to order any dream, and Gaudí got what every creator dreams of: freedom of expression without regard to estimates. Palace Güell:

A great architect who almost did not work with drawings, whose work is based on a scrupulous mathematical calculation, a subverter of authorities and a trendsetter who worked outside of established styles. His main tools were imagination, intuition and ... calculations in the mind. You could say he was an Einstein in architecture. Palace Güell, view from the roof:

Having gained financial "independence", Gaudí goes beyond the dominant historical styles within the eclecticism of the 19th century, declaring war on the straight line and moving forever into the world of curved surfaces to form his own, unmistakably recognizable style.

Antonio Gaudí y Cornet was born on June 25, 1852 in the small town of Reus, near Tarragona, in Catalonia. He was the fifth, youngest, child in the family of boilermakers Francesc Gaudí y Serra and his wife Antonia Cornet y Bertrand. It was in the workshop of his father, according to the architect himself, that a sense of space awakened in him.

Gaudí's Barcelona is a fairy tale embodied in architecture. Onlookers crowd in front of his residential buildings. It is strange that people live in these houses-terems, and not fabulous creatures; that under these rearing roofs, behind these curved facades with swollen balconies, everyday life goes on. It is even more difficult to imagine that every detail of this excessively lush decor carries not only an aesthetic, but also a functional load. That is, it was created not only to amaze the imagination: rich Barcelona residents are accustomed not only to luxury, but also to comfort.

With the completion of the palace, Antonio Gaudi ceased to be a nameless builder, quickly becoming the most fashionable architect in Barcelona, ​​soon turned into a "virtually unaffordable luxury." For the bourgeois of Barcelona, ​​he built houses one more unusual than the other: a space that is born and develops, expanding and moving like living matter.

Mosaic ceiling in the house:

Gaudí is a genius far ahead of his time. A phenomenon that defies explanation, let alone imitation. Unique, incomparable, inconceivable.

But his main creation, the pinnacle of his art and the outlet of his heart was the Expiatory Temple of the Holy Family (Sagrada Familia). In 1906, his father died, and six years later, his niece, who was in poor health, was his last close person. Gaudi completely closed himself, and made this temple his redemptive sacrifice. Imagine, all the money that he earned as an architect of the temple, Gaudí invested in the construction itself. For many years he worked for free, not considering himself in the right to appropriate the people's money - and the temple was built on donations from rich and poor people of Barcelona.

Gaudí did not hope to complete the Sagrada Familia during his lifetime. He dreamed of finishing the East Front of the Nativity so that the fruits of his efforts could be seen by his own generation. By this, he obliged future builders to continue work. He managed to finish the chapel, the apse (the semicircular part of the building), the section of the monastery, part of the vestibule<Розарий>and parochial school. The three bell towers of the Nativity façade were completed after his death. He left detailed drawings, 1:10 scale models, sketches of designs, so that his followers would not deviate from his plan. But to continue the construction was not easy: it required huge funds. During the civil war, it was decided to mothball it. Several times the Temple was under the threat of destruction.

The school was destroyed, Gaudí's workshop was ruined. The controversy over whether to continue or freeze the work was a logical consequence of the attitude of the authorities towards the work of the great Catalan. The work was either deployed in full front, then curtailed due to lack of funds. But then His Majesty the people intervened. Money continued to flow into the Temple Construction Fund. On average, construction requires three million dollars annually.

This year the Barcelona Jews donated five million. But even with a stable inflow of funds, construction is expected to take at least another 65 years, although no one can name the exact date. Could not name her and Gaudi. When asked when the Sagrada Familia would be completed, he answered: "My customer is in no hurry."

Now an arrow of a tower crane hung over the Temple. The interior is a huge construction site: concrete mixers, iron structures, reinforced concrete blocks, plaster decoration details, column capitals. The most advanced technologies and materials are used, which Gaudí did not know. Computer analysis confirms the accuracy of his calculations, which he tested with sandbags suspended from a mock-up. Skeptics doubt that the Sagrada Familia will ever be finished and that Gaudí's secret plan was to make its construction eternal.

Gaudi is considered to be a Catalan Art Nouveau. He is the brightest representative of it. But it does not fully fit into any architectural trend. With the same success, it can be attributed to the Moorish baroque, neoclassicism or neo-gothic. But he chose to arbitrarily mix all the architectural styles, creating his own eclecticism. What really distinguishes it from everyone else is the connection of architecture with nature.

Gaudi died when he was hit by the first tram at the foot of Mount Tibidabo. He was almost 74 years old. He probably could have survived, but the cab drivers refused to take the untidy, unknown old man to the hospital without money and documents, fearing non-payment for the trip. In the end, Gaudi was taken to a hospital for the poor, and no one could recognize the famous architect until his friends found him the next day. When they tried to transfer him to the best hospital, he refused with the words that "his place is here, among the poor." Gaudí died on the third day, June 10, 1926. In 1926, Antonio Gaudí, the greatest architect of the 20th century, whose creations now and forever defined the face of Barcelona, ​​was buried in the crypt of the unfinished cathedral.

Gaudi deifies nature. Its church spiers are topped with sheaves of cereals and ears of corn, the arches of the windows are crowned with baskets of fruit, bunches of grapes hang from the facades; drainpipes meander in the form of snakes and reptiles; chimneys are twisted with snails, grates are forged in the form of palm leaves. But Gaudi does something that no one has dared to do before him: he transfers the laws of nature to architecture. He managed to achieve a continuous fluidity of architectural forms, accessible only to living nature. It uses parabolic slabs and slanted tree columns. There is not a single straight line in his projects, just as there is none in nature.

Catalan Art Nouveau, the impetus for which was, in particular, Antonio Gaudi, arose on a powerful crest of national resistance. Catalonia has not always belonged to Spain. She became Spanish as a result of the royalist marriage of Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile, the same one who sent Columbus on a journey and expelled the Jews from Spain. Over the next three centuries, Catalonia gradually lost its privileges and became more and more a Spanish province. Proud Catalans could not accept this. They strongly opposed the Spanish cultural expansion. The explosion of national consciousness affected all spheres of public life: music, literature, painting, sculpture, architecture, theater, language. In the end, the Catalans returned their language - Catalan and achieved autonomous control. Barcelona has become the most beautiful city in the country.

By the way, at the dawn of his activity, Gaudí was associated with workers' unions. The labor movement in industrial Catalonia, especially in the textile industry, was most acute. Gaudí's first major project was the creation of a workers' town in Montaro. Subsequently, Gaudi moved away from the labor movement, became a devout Catholic and hoisted Christian symbols not only on cathedrals and residential buildings, but also on purely utilitarian buildings.

Among the residential buildings of Gaudí, the apartment building, which went down in history under the name "Casa Mila", is especially famous. This house was popularly nicknamed "Pedrera" ("Kamenyuka"), "Aspen's Nest" or, even worse, "Meat Pie".

But if only this one of all modern buildings in the world were left in the world, it would embody modernity in its perfect form. This six-story undulating building wraps around the intersection of Grazia Boulevard and Provenza Street. Visitors are allowed in there, like in a museum.

Anticipating the flow of visitors, Gaudi turned the roof into a terrace and at the same time an observation deck. In the basement, he placed the stables - it was the prototype of the garage. He was the first to use a ramp (rise from floor to floor) for horses and carriages - this principle was later used in multi-level parking lots.

A few months after Gaudí's death, a young Japanese sculptor, Kenji Imai, visited Barcelona. He was so impressed by the Temple that he decided to create a cathedral in Nagasaki based on his study of Gaudí's work. Since then, the Japanese pilgrimage to Barcelona began.

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Magic houses of Gaudí inspire many people

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Barcelona is a city of incomparable architectural delights, one of the capitals of Art Nouveau. The creations of Antonio Gaudi occupy a central place in the urban space. Millions of tourists travel to Barcelona to see these masterpieces of architecture.

In total, there are thirteen objects built by Gaudí in Barcelona.

Sagrada Familia

One of Gaudí's most famous works in Barcelona is La Sagrada Familia or Sagrada Familia. This is a huge temple that has been under construction for over 130 years. The construction of the basilica began back in 1882, and it is expected to end only by 2050. This is not only the most famous, but also the most visited tourist attraction in Barcelona. You can find the Sagrada Familia at Mallorca, 401. To get to it, you need to take the lilac L2 or blue L5 metro line to the Sagrada Familia station or bus routes 19, 33, 34, 43, 44, 50 and 51.

There are always huge queues of tourists in the Sagrada. Therefore, we recommend that you purchase a ticket to the cathedral in advance. You can do it using this link.

Casa Batlló

Casa Batllo is one of the most unusual houses in Barcelona. The house looks like it was built from skulls and bones. It is felt that when designing this house, Gaudi was inspired by the depths of the sea. The facade of the building has a delicate coral color.

Sir Antonio paid great attention to details. One has only to pay attention to the windows of Casa Batlló: their size depends on how high they are. Thus, the issue of uniform lighting of the rooms was solved.

Tourists will be able to see Casa Batllo at Passeigde Gràcia, 43, which can be reached if you take the L3 metro green line to Passeigde Gràcia station. It is worth paying attention to the subway exit! It should be Calle Aragó - Rambla Catalunya - and then it will take literally 30 seconds to walk to Casa Batlló.

Tickets to Casa Batlló can also be bought in advance.

Park Güell

You should definitely visit the aristocratic park of Barcelona, ​​built by Gaudi commissioned by Eusebi Güell. Güell Park is home to unique stone structures, amazing mosaics and magnificent buildings. At the entrance to the park, tourists are greeted by a dragon fountain decorated with mosaics.

It is in this park that one feels how strongly the natural principle influenced the architecture of Antonio Gaudi. There are huge stone columns that have grown out of the ground like strange tree trunks.

At the top of the park there is a terrace from which everyone can enjoy a magnificent view not only of the park, but of all of Barcelona.

Casa Vicens

Not many tourists are aware of the existence of Casa Vicens, one of Gaudí's earliest works. This family residence was designed and built under the order of the industrialist Manuel Vicens in 1878-1889. The style of the building mixes Spanish-Arabic with Oriental and adds Gaudí's characteristic influence of nature.

Bright colors and special attention to detail will impress any architecture lover.

Address: Carrer de les Carolines, 18-24 Nearest metro station: Fontana, green line L3

You can also get acquainted with the main creations of Gaudi during one sightseeing tour or have fun with the help of modern technologies in 4D space.

If you went to Barcelona with young travelers, they will surely enjoy the tour.

The outstanding Spanish architect Antonio Gaudi is deservedly called a genius. This man had a sparkling creative imagination, he knew how to mix different styles in an amazing way, and his projects were often called architectural madness.

The beginning of the creative path of Antonio Gaudi

The young Gaudí arrived in Barcelona in the middle of the 19th century. Here he began working as a draftsman and studied crafts. The capital of Catalonia at that time looked in the neo-Gothic style.

As his first projects, the young architect worked on the creation of the summer mansion El Capriccio on the territory of the Cantabrian coast and the private residential House of Vicens. These buildings were designed by Gaudí in a modernist style. For the construction of the Vicente House, the architect used raw stone and ceramic tiles. He used these materials to create floral and checkerboard patterns. Vicente's house is decorated with bay windows and turrets, protruding balconies and facades fenced with bars of an unusual shape.

The El Capriccio mansion is a unique building with picturesque views of the valley and the sea. For its cladding, Gaudi used multi-colored ceramic tiles and bricks.

The main architectural projects of Gaudí

The novice architect was patronized by the textile magnate Eusebi Güell, who really liked the extraordinary architectural projects of Gaudi. Now Antonio could fully show his unique talent, without following the generally accepted rules and without limiting the flight of his imagination. Gaudi began to develop his own recognizable style. He undertook the construction of the Guell Palace, which the patron eventually received as a gift from his ward. This building is considered one of the best works of the architect.

Gaudi worked on the creation of a palace on the street. Carrer Nou de la Rambla. Now it is under the protection of UNESCO. When developing his project, the architect managed to combine flat Byzantine vaults with decorative steel structures. Gates for the passage of horse-drawn carriages acted as a bright decorative element. The same can be said about the carved decorative ceilings, decorated with silver and gold details. Chimneys on the roof of the building have different shapes and look like unusual figures.

The interiors of the palace are distinguished by unusual furniture specially made for them, luxuriously furnished rooms in which there are multi-colored chimneys, and grandiose parabolic arches.

After completing work on the Palau Güell, Gaudi became a well-known architect in the city and received many orders from wealthy Barcelona residents. He created unusual residential buildings for them, which differed from each other. For example, Casa Mila, which is located at the intersection of Carrer de Provenza and Passeig de Gracia Boulevard, was created by an architect for the Mila family. This is the first building of the XX century, taken under the protection of UNESCO.

- the main project of the great architect, thanks to which he was known in all corners of the world. The construction of the temple was initially entrusted to the unknown architect Francesco Villar, as well as his assistant Joan Mortarello. A few years later, the architects were replaced by Antonio Gaudí.

The construction of the cathedral has not been completed to this day. Modern architects will have to deal with its interior decoration, the construction of domes, extensions and grandiose towers. The Spanish government has promised that the construction of the temple will be completed by 2026.

The architect was constantly working on improving the plan of the cathedral. He changed it several times. Work on the construction of the cathedral often stopped. At the same time, in the northern district of the city, you can now see a unique Christian church that looks like a stalactite cave.

This religious building surprises with its architectural ensemble. Gaudi managed to complete the work on the creation of the facade of the Nativity, which includes three portals, which are symbols of Orthodox shrines - Faith, Hope and Love. They are decorated with sculptures depicting biblical scenes. For example, above the portal of Hope there is a scene of the betrothal of Joseph and Mary, as well as Mount Montserrat, which is a famous Catalan shrine. All towers have an unusual shape and symbolize the apostles. Spiers were used to decorate the bell towers, which are decorated with stylized images symbolizing the episcopal dignity. The exterior decoration of the cathedral is made up of biblical quotations and liturgical texts. The interior design of the temple is distinguished by smooth lines and geometric models, presented in the form of an ellipsoid, conoid, helicoid, hyperbolic paraboloid and hyperboloid. The cathedral is decorated with stars, helicoidal staircases, hyperbolic vaults and round stained-glass windows.

The great architect passed away at the age of 74. He was hit by a tram that was passing near the Sagrada Familia Cathedral. Gaudí's burial place was a crypt in an unfinished temple.

Bellesguard Tower

Near Mount Tibidabo you can see the Bellesguard Tower. It is a small but significant piece of architecture by Gaudí, with a straight-lined façade. For the interior design of this object, the architect used his characteristic architectural eccentricities, which inspired him with medieval legends associated with the King of Catalonia, Marty the Merciful. It was he who named this city Barcelona. For Gaudi, this object turned into a testing ground for his own innovations, which were subsequently used by the architect in the construction of the Sagrada Familia.

The rich widow Maria Sages became the customer for the construction of the tower in 1900. It began to be erected on the site where the ruined palace of King Marty had previously been located. The work was completed in 1909. It is worth noting that the inner courtyard of Bellesguard keeps the ruins of the royal palace, before which there was a medieval castle with catacombs, where the legendary Catalan robber Sierralonga hid. Now the Giler family lives in the tower house, which opened this building for tourists in 2013.

The word "Bellesguard" is translated as "beautiful view".

The tower house has the features of a medieval castle, consisting in a gallery of the last floor protected by battlements, miniature semicircular balconies decorated with stone scallops, narrow long loophole windows and powerful walls. The architect installed a three-dimensional cross on the tower.

The tower was built with a square base, all sides of which are 15 m long. The house has elevated floors. Because of this, the effect of a tower soaring up is created. The entrance to the house is decorated with three balconies, which are distinguished by openwork metal forging, a curious masonry of the pediment and mosaic benches with fishes. Inside the tower is quite spacious and sunny. The room is decorated with numerous colored stained-glass windows, anthropomorphic ceilings, ceramic tiles, forged details and other outlandish accents that the architect loved so much.

The tower is surrounded by a small picturesque garden with a porter's house, bars and a water pump. The neighboring street is the location of the viaduct, similar to a load-bearing wall, by Gaudí.

A spiral staircase will take you up to the tower from where you can admire the cityscape, the Sarria area and the Tibidabo mountain.

Also, for a more detailed acquaintance with the legacy of the great architect, it is worth visiting the Gaudí Space Museum, the architect's house-museum and the Batllo house.