February 2007

Casa Mila One more place of Gaudi’s genius – another residential building that is not like any other. Casa Mila. Actually, they call it – La Pedrera – The Quarry. In the past locals gave it this name because they considered it an ugly building. Now it is a UNESCO Site. Oh the irony of […]

 It might seem that Gaudi was a madman. Well, he must’ve been anyway. But no ordinary man can create things he did. And the secret of a genius turned out to be so simple, yet so magical: the secret was – the Nature. Gaudi’s designs were inspired by nature’s soft curves and lines (rather than

Park Guell. Well, they have few hills in Barcelona. It is not a flat city at all. One of the hills has been chosen for another grand project of Gaudi – a “garden city”. The idea was to build a housing estate for the rich locals. Never worked, as usual. But the park has managed