This time Antoni Gaudí made one bigger than usual. In Barcelona there is a public park representing one of the symbols of the Catalan capital you can’t miss if you are planning to visit this city: we are talking about Parc Güell.
An industrialist from Barcelona, a certain Eusebi Güell Bacigalupi, had earned a lot of money to be able to buy a hill, called El Carmel. Not knowing how else burn his money, at the early years of the twentieth century he commissioned to the architect Antoni Gaudí (what a coincidence!) the realization of a park upon his hill. No one knows how it happened, it has been perhaps boredom, or hallucinogens Gaudí evidently used, making him feel fantastic sensations, but it remains a fact that the ‘coolest’ architect of Barcelona decided to satisfy all his whims and in this work he showed its best. The result is an artwork full of ceramics, mosaics, decorations that recall animals and natural elements, buildings and houses in a fairytale style and, the icing on the cake, a very famous salamander that welcomes visitors at the park entrance.
In reality, as also in other cases, the work of Gaudí is left unfinished; in fact, it was planned the construction of several houses in the park, but again Gaudí forgot how to conclude his work not having realized a shred of project. Just few of many provided houses were completed and in one of them Gaudí himself lived for several years, probably because he had no longer the courage to return in the city.
It is said that Mr Güell kicked away Gaudí when he saw what he had done to his hill. However Mr Güell really can not complain about it, he should expect such a joke from someone like Gaudí.
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