Park Güell - Gallery of Images

Gallery of Images

• View from the main terrace of the park.

• Entrance to the Park.

• The dragon, as restored after the vandalism of February 2007.

• Doric columns support the roof of the lower court which forms the central terrace, with serpentine seating round its edge.

• The unique shape of the serpentine bench enables the people sitting on it to converse privately, although the square is large. The bench is tiled and in order to dry up quickly after it rains, and to stop people from sitting in the wet part of the bench, small bumps were installed by Gaudí.

• Bird nests built by Gaudí in the terrace walls. The walls imitate the trees planted on them.

• An uninterrupted view of the terrace walls.

• Roadway in the Park - resembles the pine trees of the park. In order to fit in, the road and walkway structures between the terraces were built with stones quarried within the park. Bird nests have been installed in the walkways.

• Viaduct

• Colonnaded footpath under the roadway viaduct, with external columns sloping to take the diagonal thrust from the vault supporting the road.

• Colonnaded pathway where the road projects out from the hillside, with the vaulting forming a retaining wall which curves over to support the road, and transmits the load onto sloping columns.

• Another of Gaudí's Tiled Mosaics on the ceiling.

• One of Gaudí's unique tiles in Parc Güell

• Ceiling Mosaic in the Hypostyle Room, Park Güell, Barcelona

• Pavilion at the entrance

• Third fountain at the entrance with the dragon

• Casa Martí Trias i Domènech