Oceania Cruise to Spain - August 2014

  
       
  Barcelona, Spain   Güell Park Tour=Paulette on the loose in Barcelona
                          		 
     
 

Breakfast at a little restaurant across from the Hilton.

    
     
      A cab ride (again) across town  
     
  Park Güell   Eusebi Güell entrusted Gaudi the plan to create an estate for well-off
families on a property known as "Bare Mountain".  It had views of the
sea and the plain of Barcelona.		  
     
  Two buildings at the entrance of the park.      
     
         
     
  The steps start from the entrace square, framed by two convex walls with merlons, with a shelter beside a conical column on the right
hand side.  It is a double flight of steps divided into sections that ascend to the Hypostyle Room or Columns Room.		  
     
  Guell died in 1922 and the property was offered to the Barcelona City Council who decided to open it as a park 4 years later.  
   
  Sculptured figures clad with tile-shard mosaic as shown on this dragon or salamander.  
     
  Tripod formed by 3 snakes The columns room  
     
  A covered space that could also be used as a market for the estates.  
     
  You can also play "hide and seek" very easily. Area has 86 striated columns.  
   
    Columns room ceiling  
     
      Teatre Grec or Nature Theater  
     
  Meant for holding of open-air shows.  The square is partly dug into the mountain and partly held up by the Hypostyle room below.  
     
  All sorts of celebrations were held here from sports events to balloon flights.  
   
  Columns room supporting deck above. Mosaic sitting area on the deck.  
     
     
     
  Portico of the washer woman. Gargoyles  
     
    The Gaudi House Museum  
   
  Gaudí’s neighbors during his stay at Park Güell were the Güell and Trias families. The lawyer Martí Trias i Domènech occupied the only
other house built in the Park, Casa Trias.		  
     
  Porter's lodge