24- Modern Gaudi ..

Casa Battlo - Gaudi Work

Returning to the bus, leaving the dreamy Barcelona Olympic Port to continue our tour in the city.

Along the main avenues we passed, was first the "Arc de Triomf" built by Joseph Vilaseca i Casanovas, as the main access gate for the 1888 Barcelona World Fair.

Arriving to the street Passeig de Gracia where we had dinner yesterday me, Jan and Beth at El Nacional Restaurant.

There it was standing, the masterpiece of Antoni Gaudi "Casa Battlo", redesigned house in 1904 by Gaudi, also known as "Casa dels Ossos" House of Bones.

You can see when you stand in front of it, the irregular oval windows and flowing sculpted stone work. The facade is decorated with colorful broken mosaic ceramic tiles. The roof looked like a shape of a dragon back or dinosaur.

After seeing this amazing building "Casa Battlo", we continue to Pla de la Seu street where the "Barcelona Cathedral" stands like a Gothic ancestor of historical style monument.

Named also Cathedral of the Holy Cross and saint Eulalia, was constructed from the 13th to 15th centuries.

The Cathedral has a secluded Gothic cloister where 13 white geese are kept, the number explained by the assertion that Eulalia, co-patron Saint of Barcelona, a young virgin that was martyred at the age of 13. Her body is entombed in the Cathedral's crypt.

- to be continued: Next Story "Another Travel" -

Arco de Triunfo - Barcelona

Barcelona Cathedral