Barcelona, Spain

Date of visit: 25 - 27 December 2006
Tourist: Chee Wei and Mei Ting

Enjoying Mount Tibidabo - Panorama From Mt Tibidabo







Gaudi's design and museum....

Gaudí lived with his niece from 1906 to 1926 in this pink, Alice-in-Wonderland house, now a house museum.

PARK GÜELL -- Gaudi's Park... lizardsssss

Designed by Antoni Gaudí i Cornet and built from 1900 to 1914.The assignment of this project was made by the count of Güell as an aristocratic city-garden with single-family residences.The project finally wasn't a success and consequently it became a municipality property and since 1923 being transformed in a public park.The main gateway show two administrative pavilions made in stone, roofs of Catalan vaults and covered of "trencadis" (surfaces covered with irregular ceramic pieces) who is also profusely present in the park and also in other Gaudí works and Art Nouveau architecture. Both roofs of that pavilions are crowned by original domes remembering mushrooms, the left building show a stylized tower with the Gaudí typical four branches cross.

La Sagrada Família (Catalan, 'The Holy Family') is a massive Roman Catholic basilica under construction in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Construction began in 1882 and its formal title is Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família. Originally designed by Antoni Gaudí (1852 – 1926), who worked on the project for over 40 years, devoting the last 15 years of his life entirely to the endeavor, the project is scheduled to be completed in 2026. On the subject of the extremely long construction period, Gaudí is said to have remarked, "My client is not in a hurry." After Gaudí's death in 1926, work continued under the direction of Domènech Sugranyes until interrupted by the Spanish Civil War in 1935.