{"id":428,"date":"2017-02-20T13:10:11","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T13:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dosde.com\/blog\/?p=428\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T08:09:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T08:09:30","slug":"the-torre-bellesguard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pre.dosde.com\/en\/the-torre-bellesguard\/","title":{"rendered":"The Torre Bellesguard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/qa-dosde.qamoon.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/exterior-torre-bellesguard-gaudi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-824 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/qa-dosde.qamoon.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/exterior-torre-bellesguard-gaudi.jpg\" alt=\"Bellesguard Tower Antoni Gaud\u00ed\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>History of the Torre Bellesguard<\/h2>\n<p>Joan Grau i Vallespin\u00f3s, the Bishop that commissioned Gaud\u00ed with the Episcopal Palace of Astorga, set down in his will that, on his death, his properties be sold and the money used to found a college.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Gaud\u00ed, a good friend of the Bishop, knew that one of the properties for sale, located in the peaceful Barcelona neighbourhood of Sant Gervasi, sheltered the ruins of a palace built in 1408 for Mart\u00edn I the Benevolent, the last King of the Crown of Aragon belonging to the Barcelona dynasty. This coincidence fascinated Antoni Gaud\u00ed, who <strong>saw the property as an opportunity to pay homage to Catalonia\u2019s medieval splendour<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Despite the fact that there was hardly anything left of the Gothic palace worth using, the symbolic load of the property proved irresistible to the architect. It was King Mart\u00edn himself who had named it Bellesguard (\u201cgood view\u201d) and it was there that he received the news of the death of his only child and where he remarried, to Margarita de Prades (witnessed by Pope Benedict XIII and Saint Vicente Ferrer) with the intention of producing an heir to the throne. However, Mart\u00edn I died a few months later, which led to the extinction of the lineage of the House of Barcelona and the arrival to Aragon\u2019s throne of a Castillian dynasty, the Trast\u00e1mara\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Such was Gaud\u00ed\u2019s absorption in this project that he acted as intermediary between the executors of Bishop Grau\u2019s will and an interested party: Maria Sagu\u00e9s, the widow of Jaume Figueras, a rich flour trader and great admirer of the architect\u2019s work.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, between 1900 and 1909, Gaud\u00ed actually fulfilled his homage to medieval Catalonia with a summer residence for Figueras\u2019 widow that<strong> freely interprets the Catalan civil Gothic style<\/strong> by means of delicate constructive metaphors.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>A medieval castle-like house<\/h2>\n<p>In the Torre Bellesguard, <strong>Gaud\u00ed proposes a free-standing edifice, of square ground plan<\/strong>, with the diagonals facing the cardinal points and two attached bodies providing rhythm to the structural volume: the stairwell (topped by a steep pinnacle) and the chamfered salon gallery. Gaud\u00ed provides the building with a Gothic air even though many elements belonging to the style are not incorporated, given that his solutions now show the freedom and originality characteristic of his mature period.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Resources such as exaggeratedly lengthening windows and the conically crowned form of the tower, or topping the fa\u00e7ade with crenellations, add to this Gothic feel and lend a notable sensation of height to the edifice, rather surprising for such a low building.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dosde.com\/en\/books\/antoni-gaudi.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3643\" src=\"https:\/\/qa-dosde.qamoon.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Boton-descubrir-mas-EN.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Inside the Torre Bellesguard<\/h2>\n<p>[metaslider id=1280]<\/p>\n<p>Bellesguard is made up of a semi-basement, ground floor, main floor, another floor and an attic divided up into two levels. Domestic tasks are carried out in the semi-basement and the less sunny part of the ground floor. On the main floor, social activities in the lounges and dining room take place and on the first floor are the private rooms, the bedrooms. The attic was reserved for laundry. The vestibule, located on the jutting out section below the pinnacle, is the highest room as it includes the staircase that leads to the upper floors.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gaud\u00ed did away with colour and ornamentation<\/strong> and instead the brick structure was plastered and coated with limestone paint. The pure white walls highlight the undulating and rounded forms, of <strong>Mudejar influence<\/strong>, of the ceilings and recesses, assisted by the intense light that floods through the windows creating evocative plays of chiaroscuro.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>A complete visual book on Gaud\u00ed&#8217;s work<\/h2>\n<p>Antoni Gaud\u00ed was one of the most versatile architects, recognized almost anywhere in the world. His works have a sign and identity of their own.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This book closely explores the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dosde.com\/en\/gaudi-complete-work-great-architect-visual.html\">works that Antoni Gaud\u00ed carried out <\/a>during his life, it is a complete look at the artist&#8217;s legacy. The books includes more than 750 pictures, 3D recreations and computer graphics. Published by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dosde.com\/en\/\">Dosde<\/a>, it is one of the most comprehensive books to learn about the full curriculum of the great architect Gaud\u00ed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dosde.com\/en\/gaudi-complete-work-great-architect-visual.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1844 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/qa-dosde.qamoon.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/cover-back-antoni-gaudi-english-book-dosde-publishing_978-84-96783-85-0_20-011-01_B14.jpg\" alt=\"Book Complete Work of Antoni Gaudi\" width=\"700\" height=\"388\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"History of the Torre Bellesguard Joan Grau i Vallespin\u00f3s, the Bishop that commissioned Gaud\u00ed with the Episcopal Palace of Astorga, set down in his will that, on his death, his properties be sold and the money used to found a college. &nbsp; Gaud\u00ed, a good friend of the Bishop, knew that one of the properties &#8230; <a title=\"The Torre Bellesguard\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/pre.dosde.com\/en\/the-torre-bellesguard\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The Torre Bellesguard\">Read more<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-barcelona"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Torre Bellesguard - Dosde<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Torre Bellesguard - Dosde\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"History of the Torre Bellesguard Joan Grau i Vallespin\u00f3s, the Bishop that commissioned Gaud\u00ed with the Episcopal Palace of Astorga, set down in his will that, on his death, his properties be sold and the money used to found a college. &nbsp; Gaud\u00ed, a good friend of the Bishop, knew that one of the properties ... 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