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Antoni Gaudí (1852-1926) - Spanish architect, original, mysterious artist. He was called "the genius of Art Nouveau". A native of Catalonia, this person, perhaps, He was the architect of the most fantastic of all time.

He created so incredible, fantasmagorichesky style, that it can hardly be attributed even to the Art Nouveau. Gaudi - the brilliant exception to nouveau and art, at the same time, substantially, One of the highlights of his spokesmen. He absorbed and utterly mystical, his native, "Catalan Gothic" and all national Spanish styles: Mudejar, isabellino, plateresque, Churrigueresque. Gaudi became the acknowledged leader of the Spanish architects of the national romantic currents of modernity, the combined term "Catalan modernism". He is considered its primitivists, expressionists, Surrealists and Dadaists. Gaudi worked without design engineers, intuitively, like a medieval master craftsman, often improvised on the spot or on the drawing board that his assistants, he wants to do, and on the construction site, he had to put a lot of effort, to ensure the implementation of its incredible designs.

Its buildings "grow" organically, as the natural forms, they have not been built, and "appeared" ... design imperceptibly into sculpture, which immediately could be painting, mosaic, tsvetoplastikoy, then back to turn into a kind of organic-constructive education. Gaudi - typical Catalan master. His organic architecture is inhabited by bizarre creatures, figures of people and animals, dotted with flowers and trees, stone.

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Park Guell

Park Guell

In Park Guell there are always lines, to take a city view photo. But we will tell you one important secret. - the park can be reached without queues and is absolutely free to 8 in the morning. Perfect, to see the dawn over Barcelona and then have time to calmly walk before, how will the buses with tourists arrive.
Sagrada Familia Cathedral

Sagrada Familia Cathedral

Sagrada Familia built almost 150 years. This is one of the world's most stunning architectural masterpieces, who must attend each, who comes to Barcelona. If Paris is the Eiffel Tower, Roma - Coliseum, the symbol of Barcelona, this, course, Sagrada Familia. After St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City is the second most visited church in Europe, and after construction 2026 in upper Raval, to become the tallest Christian church in the world. The main tower of Christ, which are only now beginning to build, will be 172 meter tall.
Дом Гауди Casa Vicens

Дом Гауди Casa Vicens

It opens to the public the first private project of Gaudi "Casa Vicens". Few people know, that this house, located in the district of Gracia, and not vovse La Pedrera and Casa Batlló, It marked the beginning of a young architect Antonio Gaudi successful career.
Palau Guell (Guell Palace)

Palau Guell (Guell Palace)

Guell Palace is one of the earliest works of Antoni Gaudi in Barcelona. The building was built as a private house for the city of Catalan ...

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