Gaudí began this idiosyncratic park as a real-estate venture for a friend, the well-known Catalan industrialist Count Eusebi Güell, but it was never completed. The city took over the property in 1926 and turned it into a public park. Gaudí completed several of the public areas, which today look like a surrealist Disneyland, complete with a mosaic pagoda and a lizard fountain spitting water. Gaudí planned to make this a model community of 60 dwellings, arranged somewhat like a Greek theater. A central grand plaza was built above a market, as well as a undulating bench decorated with ceramic fragments.
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Highest point in the park  |
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Windblown Shelly  |
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along the pathway  |
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dragon 
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houses  |
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stairs leading into the park  |
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serpentine bench  |
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Park entrance, and houses  |
