CASA BATLLÓ
Casa Batlló is a building restored by Antoni Gaudí and Josep Maria Jujol in the year 1877 and remodelled in the years 1904–1906. It’s located in Passeig de Gràcia and it’s part of the Illa de la Discòrdia in the Eixample district of Barcelona.It was originally designed for a middle-class family and situated in a prosperous district of Barcelona.
The building looks like everything Gaudí designed, the ground floor, in particular, is rather astonishing with tracery, irregular oval windows and flowing sculpted stone work. It seems that the goal of the designer was to avoid straight lines completely. Much of the façade is decorated with a mosaic made of broken ceramic tiles that starts in shades of golden orange moving into greenish blues. The roof is arched and was likened to the back of a dragon or dinosaur.
First, in the main floor the Lumière photo store was established; a few years later, a film production, and finally the Gallery Syra, by the architect Pere Ricart Biot and decorated by Alexander Circ.
The Casa Batlló was declared Historic-Artistic Monument in 1969 and as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in July 2005.
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