Parc Guell is popular park started out as a development project.
Eusebi Guëll, a well known Catalan industrialist, acquired a
17ha / 42acre large hilly plot in the Gràcia district, north of
Barcelona in Spain. He wanted to turn the area into a
residential garden village based on English models. Sixty
Housing units as well as several public buildings were planned.
In 1900, Guëll commissioned his friend and protégé Antoni Gaudí
with the development of the project. With the support from other
architects including Josep M. Jujol and his disciple Francesc
Berenguer, Gaudí worked on the garden village until 1914 when it
was clear the project was a commercial failure: Guëll failed to
sell a single house. In 1918 the city acquired the property and
in 1922 it was opened to the public as a park. You'll find as
well in Barcelona the famous Sagrada Familia, not only well
known in all Spain but in the whole world. The pavilions,
designed by Gaudí, seem to be taken out of Hansel and Gretel,
with curved roofs covered with b