Tourist Attraction in Barcelona:
Parque Güell

Parco Güell is a public park of almost eighteen acres with gardens and architectural elements located at the top of the city of Barcelona (Spain), on the southern slope of Mount Carmelo, belonging to the slopes of Serra de Collserola (on the north face is the Parc of Carmel). Bureaucratically belongs to the neighborhood of La Salut in the district of Gràcia. Designed as architectural complex, it was designed by architect Antoni Gaudí, the greatest exponent of Catalan modernism, on behalf of the entrepreneur Eusebi Güell. Built between 1900 and 1914, it was inaugurated as a public park in 1926. Unesco included the Güell Park in the list of patrimony of humanity, Works by Antoní Gaudí. The Güell Park is a reflection of Gaudì's artistic fullness, it belongs to its naturalistic stage when the architect has perfected his personal style, inspired by the organic forms of nature, so he has put into practice a whole series of new structural solutions originated in its deep analysis of the striped surface. To this, the Catalan artist adds great creative freedom and imaginative ornamental creation; starting from such baroque architecture, his works acquire a great structural wealth, shapes and volumes lacking rationalist rigidity or any classical premise. In the Güell park, Gaudí has ​​expressed all its architectural genius and has put into practice many of its innovative structural solutions, emblematic of its organicist style that will culminate in the Sagrada Familia. The park was designed by Güell and Gaudì as a structured set where, within an incomparable picture of natural beauty, there would be some high-level accommodations with all the technological advances of the era to provide maximum comfort with some elaborate works of great artistic quality. At the same time, they created a complex of strong symbolism shared by the buyer and architect: they are perceptible in the overall concepts of Catalan politics, especially in the access staircase where the Catalan countries and the Catholic religion are represented Monument to Calvary, conceived as a parish). The mythological element is also important: it seems that Güell and Gaudi were inspired by the Temple of Apollo in Delphi for the construction of the park. On the other hand, many experts wanted to see in the park a series of references of varying significance, due to the complex iconography applied by Gaudi to the complex of the urban planning, references ranging from political claim to religious exaltation, passing through mythology, history and philosophy. In fact, many scholars claim to refer to masonry, which is unlikely due to the profound religious spirit of both Gaudi and Count Güell, and in any case not ascertained by any objective data in the historiography of modernist architect. The multiplicity of symbols expressed in the park Güell is, as has been said, political and religious interpretation, and certainly with a certain mysterious character due to the taste of the time for the puzzles and guesswork.

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