Park Güell

  • Architecture
  • Open Air
  • Open Air

Gaudí's grand garden

Basic Info
Park Güell
L3 (Green): Lesseps & Vallcarca
https://www.parkguell.cat
Depending on season, check website
Pathway modified to accommodate people with reduced mobility.

Antoni Gaudí based his project on the English garden-city model and imported it to Barcelona in the early 20th century. Between 1900 and 1914, the architectural genius injected it with small doses of geniality until he completed a unique work combining architecture and landscape. The Park was designed as a luxury residential estate for Barcelona's upper-middle classes, and was supposed to include 60 family homes.

The architect chose Muntanya Pelada (Bald Mountain) above the village of Gracia, as the site for his project. The geographical location boasted breathtaking views of Barcelona but the ground was uneven and stony, devoid of natural elements and water, meaning that Gaudí had a great many obstacles to contend with. Far from viewing the geographical drawbacks as an enemy, Gaudí embraced them, and used the natural colours he saw around him as a source of inspiration, taking advantage of the steep slopes to create water channels and collectors.

Fortunately for us, this meant that, instead of a large housing development, the architect ended up creating avast garden, full of imagination, with leafy footpaths and windy lanes, which seem to reflect a utopian vision of a lost paradise. In the park grounds, a wood of holm oaks, pines, oleanders, viburnums and ivies ushers us into the huge plaza in the form of a Greek theatre, to sit for a while on the undulating bench designed by Josep Jujol, one of Gaudí's closest collaborators, which has been called the longest abstract painting in the world. The entire Park Güell is imbued with the ideas of symbiosis between man and nature, which Gaudí and his followers put into practice in their works. Gaudí's Dragon, the architect's museum-house, the stunning trencadís and the Chamber of Hundred Columns are some of the outstanding elements that catch our eye in the middle of these captivating surroundings which are midway between the bucolic and artistic.

However, the great value of the Park Güell lies in the fact that it has become a major open-air work, a grand garden where nature and human ingenuity merge.

Reviews
  • Sorprendente

    Tantas veces fotografiada la parte central como su escalinata, etc... lo que más estropean estas visitas es la condensación de turismo y las eternas reformas. Comprar los tickets por Internet te evita colas y organizas el viaje según el tiempo asignado para la parte central. Ir 2h antes y así disfrutad de los amplios alrededores y visitar la casa de Gaudí es lo que hicimos y apreciamos mucho más. Luego acceder a la zona más popular no te demora mucho tiempo salvo el de hacer turno para hacerte las fotos en los puntos neurálgicos y claro, con la salamandra

    Tripadvisor
  • Visita Obligatoria

    Park Güell es uno de los monumentos más bonitos de Gaudí, no solo por la viveza de sus colores y formas sino por la ubicación que tiene.
    Cabe destacar que el parque tiene dos zonas:
    - Zona gratuita: Es la zona sin edificar del parque por donde pasear y disfrutar de la naturaleza. También encontrareis zonas de picnic y algún parque para los más pequeños. Lugares a destacar de esta zona: acueductos y las tres cruces.
    - Zona monumental (de pago): En esta zona es donde encontramos todo el monumento de Gaudí (los mosaicos). El precio es de 8€ por persona adulta y se recomienda 100% comprar los tiquets con antelación, además de que sale más económico comprando online. NUNCA VAYAN AL PARQUE SIN TIQUET PORQUE NO PODRÁN ENTRAR.
    Por ultimo solo me queda recomendar utilizar calzado cómodo en esta visita, utilizar el transporte público para llegar y si alguien está interesado en conocer mejor la historia del parque las visitas guiadas son extraordinarias.

    Tripadvisor
  • Hermosas vistas de la ciudad

    Empiezo por decir que soy una fan de Gaudi os recomiendo una tour por todas sus obras,pero hoy le toca el turno a su parque.Pasear bajo sus arcos en un entorno de paz y tranquilidad relajarse sentados en sus banco pleno exponente se so obra mientras contemplas la hermosa ciudad de Barcelona no tiene precio y eso es otra de sus ventajas es gratuito.

    Tripadvisor
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