Palau Güell
Front entrance allowed horse drawn carriages to
enter the home through one door and exit through
the other.

The roof features several chimneys and ventilator shafts covered with ornate and colorful tile patterns.

The Palau Güell is a palace in Barcelona, Spain designed by the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí for the Catalan industrial tycoon Eusebio de Güell. Front entrance to Palau Güell Photo taken by Chris McCabe on July 8, 2003 File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Roof of Palau Güell in Barcelona, Spain, designed by Antoni Gaudi. ... Roof of Palau Güell in Barcelona, Spain, designed by Antoni Gaudi. ... Barcelona within Barcelonès Population (2003) 1,582,738 Area 1004 Km2 Population density (2001) 15,764/Km2 Barcelona is the capital of Catalonia, an autonomous community in northeastern Spain, and the countrys second-largest city (after Madrid). ... Architect at his drawing board, 1893 An architect/Building designer is a person involved in the planning, designing and oversight of a buildings construction, whose role is to guide decisions affecting those building aspects that are of aesthetic, cultural or social concern. ... Antoni Gaud i Cornet (more widely known in the English speaking world under the Spanish version of his first name, as Antonio Gaud , or, just simply, Gaudi), (25 June 1852–10 June 1926) was a Catalan architect famous for his unique designs expressing sculptural and individualistic qualities. ... Capital Barcelona Official languages Spanish and Catalan In Val dAran, also Aranese. ...

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The home is centered around a main room for entertaining high society guests. Guests entered the home in horse drawn carriages through the front iron gates, which featured a parabolic arch and intricate patterns of forged iron-work resembling seaweed and in some parts a horsewhip. Animals could be taken down a ramp and kept in the livery stable in the basement where the servants resided, while the guests went up the stairs to the receiving room. The ornate walls and ceilings of the receiving room disguised small viewing windows high on the walls where the owners of the home could view their guests from the upper floor and get a 'sneak peak' before greeting them, in case they needed to adjust their attire accordingly.

One of the chimneys.

The main party room has a high ceiling with small holes near the top where lanterns were hung at night from the outside to give the appearance of a starlit sky. One of the chimneys on the roof of Palau Guell in Barcelona, Spain. ... One of the chimneys on the roof of Palau Guell in Barcelona, Spain. ...

At the time of writing (2005), Palau Güell is closed to the public due to renovations; some of the stone used in the original construction was weak and has cracked over the years causing stuctural problems within the building. The building is expected to re-open to visitors around October 2006.

External links

• http://www.op.net/~jmeltzer/Gaudi/palaugel.html
• http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/spain/barcelona/gaudiguell/guell.html