Gaudi. Loves it!

After another lovely run with Leslie we took on the day with Adrienne and Mauricio and started at the La Pedrera this apartment building designed by Gaudi. Today turned out to be a lot warmer and the sky was blue so pictures were way better! We toured the inside and got to see us one of the apartment which covered a full floor and wrapped all around the inner courtyard aka it was a pretty awesome apt. which I’m sure cost a heck of a lot. The attic was dedicated to showing some of Gaudi’s planning that went in to the structure including a model. The attic ceiling contains 270 curved brick arches of all different height to support the crazy roof. That brings me to the best part, roof terrace which was covered with these funny looking unique sculptures.


After eating some lunch outside by the Pedrera we jumped on the bus and went to la Sagrada Familia. This is Gaudi’s famous Temple of the Holy Family that began being built in 1883 and is yet to be finished. I really wish they would move more rapidly and finish this because right now it is surrounded by cranes and just this huge construction site. It is pretty creepy looking and shows that Gaudi must have had some kind of bi-polar tendency because some of his work is so fun, cheerful, and colorful while others like this is grey and dismal. There is just so much detail on this temple that it is hard to focus your eyes and to me it looks like it is melting. The newer parts are so much whiter and cleaner so they don’t match. I feel they need to do some cleaning on the original but I think they have their hands full finished this ongoing project.

Next we went to Parc Guëll which is where Guadi’s work is best in tune with nature (hahaha that is how our bus guide put it) It felt like we were walking into some kind of Tim Burton Amusement park with the two cool entrance buildings and staircase covered in mosaic tiling. Also right at the front was Gaudi’s famous mosaic dragon. The park was really awesome and I really loved seeing all the mosaics. There was covered area that had a really awesome mosaic ceiling and on top of this area is the famous cursive benches by Josep Maria Jujol. We bumped into many other Disney people in the park.

Gaudi’s stuff it is really avant garde and weird but I just love it. Some of it is really bright and happy but other stuff is grey and creepy. He definitely had some kind of bi-polar thing going on. He used a lot of mosaic too which I love!