LA PEDRERA
La Pedrera, was designed by architect Antoni Gaudí and built between 1906 and 1910 in modernist art style. Gaudí had the colaboration of his assistants Domènec Sugrañes and Josep Canaleta, and the builder Josep Font i Bayo, who worked with Gaudí at Casa Batlló.
The building, so innovative, is a typical Gaudi's work. The facade is made of lime stone from Villafranca, except the top which is covered with white tiles. The combination evokes a snow mountain.
On the roof there are chimneys covered with fragments of pottery, with the appearance of heads of warriors protected by helmets. It has a total of five floors, plus a storage room made entirely transparent under a arched roof , as well as two large courtyards, one circular and one oval. In the facade cyclopean archentrance, there are carved rosebuds with inscriptions of the Ave Maria in Latin (“Ave Maria gratia plena, Dominus tecum”).
The Casa Mila was declared a Historic-Artistic Monument of National Character in 1969 and in 1984 UNESCO it was included within the World Heritage Site "Works of Antoni Gaudí".
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I liked the pedrera monument...
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