Local before arrival
Gaudí’s client, Count Eusebi Güell, wanted an English garden city. However, the enchanting world awaiting visitors who make the steep climb to Park Güell in the Gràcia district looks nothing like that. What Gaudí created here is a fantastical landscape full of magic, symbolism, and whimsy. The park is a fairytale land exploding in a riot of colors, mainly because Gaudí made his mosaics of broken ceramic tiles, a technique called “trencadís.”
