#Barcelona UNESCO #world heritage sites

#Gaudi's Crypt at #Carrer Claudi Guell, La Colonia Guell
# The church, now known as the crypt, included Gaudi's architectural innovations for the first time: catenary arches, outer walls and vaults in the shape of hyperbolic parabolas, decorative broken mosaic tiling, known as "trencadis", and the integration of materials into their natural surroundings.

#Guell Palace at #Carrer Nou de la Rambla, 3-5
# The building is notable for its extravagant decorative elements, organic shapes, colourful ceramic tiles and artistically designed wrought-iron elements. One of the most emblematic features of the palace is the façade, adorned with intricate wrought-iron railings and fanciful chimneys that resemble medieval soldiers' helmets.

#Palace of Catalan Music# *** at #Carrer del Palau de la Musica, 4-6
# A UNESCO World Heritage Site, the building is famous for its large concert hall decorated with coloured stained glass windows, sculptures and mosaics, and is considered one of the finest examples of Catalan Modernist architecture, also known as Art Nouveau.

#House Batllo at #Passeig de Gracia, 43
# The ground floor, in particular, has unusual tracery, irregular oval windows and flowing sculpted stone work. There are few straight lines, and much of the façade is decorated with a colorful mosaic made of broken ceramic tiles (trencadis). The roof is arched and was likened to the back of a dragon or dinosaur.

#House Mila at #Provenca, 261-265
# Casa Mila (1906-1912) is Antoni Gaudi’s most iconic work of civic architecture due to both its constructional and functional innovations, as well as its ornamental and decorative solutions.

#House Vicens Gaudi at #Carrer de les Carolines, 20
# Neo-Mudejar architecture is a type of Moorish revival architecture that Gaudi incorporated into Casa Vicens. The years 1883-1888 are described as Gaudi’s orientalist period. Casa Vicens incorporates Catalan, Islamic, Japanese and English inspirations and techniques.

#Park Guell at #Carrer Olot, 1
# In the design of Park Guell, Gaudi unleashed all his architectonic genius and put to practice much of his innovative structural solutions that would become the symbol of his organic style and that would culminate in the creation of the Basilica and Expiatory Church of the Holy Family (Catalan: Sagrada Familia).

#Hospital of la Santa Creu i Sant Pau# *** at #Carrer de Sant Quinti, 89
# The Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau - or "Hospital Sant Pau" - has evolved from a medieval charitable home to a modern hospital since its founding about 600 years ago. Today, the Hospital Sant Pau is also one of the most beautiful and significant modernistic complexes.

#Nativity Fassade and Crypt of the Sagrada Familia at #Carrer de Mallorca, 401
# In 1882, construction of Sagrada Familia started under architect Francisco de Paula del Villar. In 1883, when Villar resigned, Gaudi took over as chief architect, transforming the project with his architectural and engineering style, combining Gothic and curvilinear Art Nouveau forms.