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Qu’est-ce que la crypte Güell ? Située dans la ville de Santa Coloma de Cervelló, à quelques kilomètres de Barcelone, la Crypte Güell est une œuvre majeure dans la trajectoire d’Antoni Gaudí, puisqu’elle anticipe de nombreuses techniques de construction que l’architecte moderniste emploierait dans la Sagrada Familia.   Bien qu’il s’agisse d’un projet inachevé, ce … Read more

Gaudí and the Teresian College of Barcelona In 1889, Enric d’Ossó, founder of the Teresian Congregation, commissioned Gaudí to continue the project of a large building in the village of Sant Gervasi de Cassoles –absorbed by Barcelona a few years later– in order to accommodate a female boarding college, the headquarters of the congregation and … Read more

The history of Casa Vicens In 1878, Manuel Vicens i Montaner, stockbroker commissioned Antoni Gaudí with the project of a detached summer residence on a plot of land on the western edge of the town of Gràcia, which was then an independent municipality only a kilometre and a half away from Barcelona: the Casa Vicens. … Read more

Casa Calvet, a winning project Located on Carrer Caspe of Barcelona, Casa Calvet was Gaudí’s first work in the Eixample, the neighbourbood that evolved following the demolition of the Catalan capital’s medieval walls. The project was an initiative of the heirs of cotton industrialist Pere Màrtir Calvet, who commissioned Gaudí with the construction of a … Read more

A building transformed into a work of art Located on Passeig de Gràcia, the most important boulevard in Barcelona, Casa Batlló is considered as one of the most original works of architect Antoni Gaudí, a major reference of Catalan Modernism (Modernisme).   The building was constructed between 1904 and 1906, coinciding with Gaudí’s mature architecture … Read more

History of the Bodegas Güell In 1874, industrialist Eusebi Güell acquires a large estate measuring 825 hectares to the south of Barcelona, on a very rocky coastal area between Sitges and Castelldefells, with the intention of channelling an underground spring towards the capital whilst cultivating some old vineyards and exploiting a limestone quarry. In 1882, … Read more

Barcelona, an avant-garde city Since its beginnings, and over the centuries, Barcelona has always played host to major artistic events that have transformed and determined the character and the heterogeneous personality of the city and its inhabitants.   Thanks to this innovative and creative nature –which has seduced great artists, architects and intellectuals alike–, Barcelona … Read more