Overview

Antoni Gaudi is the author of many works in the city of Barcelona.

His main highlights are the Sagrada Familia church, Park Güell and La Pedrera or Casa Batlló.

But there are other less visited sites from other not less interesting architects such as Lluis Domenech i Montaner and the Palau de la Música, Hospital de Sant Pau or the casa Lleó i Morera. And Puig i Cadafalch with his main work open to visitors, la Casa Amatller.

I propose you to discover a new world of modernist architecture in Barcelona.

Starting with the Passeig the Gracia Avenue admiring the outstanding variety of façades of the modernist houses built at the beginning of the 20th century.

Including the inside visit of Casa Museu Amatller designed by Puig i Cadafalch. Together with Antoni Gaudí, Josep Puig i Cadafalch was one of the great architects of modernism. However, his figure transcends beyond architecture because as well as being an architect he was a great art historian, archaeologist and politician.

Antoni Amatller, the promoter of Casa Amatller, represented the third generation of a family dedicated to the Chocolate industry. In the Casa Museu Amatller you can see the transformation from a traditional society based on the old regime to a much more open, dynamic one typical of the industrial and contemporary world of the early 20th century. Amatller’s daughter Teresa Amatller lived alone in the house until 1960.

A unique house full of symbolism and one of the most admired façades in the city of Barcelona and which is largely reminiscent of the medieval architecture.
The original house had been built in 1875 according to the outlines of the ornamental sobriety required by the Cerdà Plan after the demolition of the medieval walls of Barcelona. Between 1898 and 1900 the architect Puig i Cadafalch carried out a complete transformation that can be seen above all in the façade, the main floor and the ground floor entrance.
Puig i Cadafalch designed an iconographic programme relating to the family of Antoni Amatller with sculptures evoking the promotor’s activities (industry, arts and collecting.
A must-see visit to understand bourgeois society and move to 1900!