Gaudí buildings standing in Barcelona

Map of 7 locations in Barcelona, Spain

Seven commissions that survived the century after Antoni Gaudí's death in 1926, from the tiled house he built for a tile manufacturer in 1885 to the basilica still under construction. The notes here follow materials and clients: who paid, which quarry or kiln supplied the facing, what a later owner stripped out or put back. Ownership varies from private foundations to the city, and access ranges from timed ticketing to a stairwell you can look up from the entrance hall.

Places in this collection

  • Torre Bellesguard — Also known as Casa Figueres, after the family that commissioned it, the house was built between 1900 and 1909 on the site of the 15th-centu…
  • Palau Güell — Gaudí built this as a town residence for Eusebi Güell between 1885 and 1890, on a narrow street off the Rambla, which is why the two parabo…
  • Casa Calvet — Built in 1898 and 1899 for the textile manufacturer Pere Màrtir Calvet, this was designed as both dwelling and business premises, and Barce…
  • Casa Vicens — Gaudí was thirty when he took the commission from the tile and brick manufacturer Manuel Vicens i Montaner, and he worked on the house from…
  • Casa Batlló — This was a remodelling rather than a new build: Gaudí reworked an existing Eixample apartment block for Josep Batlló between 1904 and 1906,…
  • Park Güell — Eusebi Güell bought the hillside intending a gated estate of villas and had Gaudí lay out the roads, terraces and services between 1900 and…
  • Sagrada Família — Work began in 1882 under Francesc de Paula del Villar, and when he resigned in 1883 the commission passed to Gaudí, who reworked it entirel…

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