The Casa Milà is one of the last buildings of the architect Antoni Gaudí, before he completely devoted it in the building of the Sagrada Familia. The Casa Milà is in the Eixample district and one of the best known and most impressive buildings in Barcelona.

The house is also known as "La Pedrera, the quarry house. If you see, we know why.

To visit is an art exhibition in the Belle Etage, an apartment on the top floor with furnishings from the 20-years of the previous century, the top floor with an exhibition of works by Antoni Gaudí and especially the roof, with its famous ventilation openings, which partly look like soldiers.

The front of the house looks like massive rocks, relaxed only by the wavy lines of iron and beaten ornaments. The bright and the stone facade of this otherwise colourless industry distinguishes it from all other works of Gaudí and is very expressionistic.

The house itself consists of two houses, which are connected only by the facade, the ground floor and the roof. Each has its own courtyard and entrance.

The story begins in the House as the history of each house. The couple Milà decides to build a house on their 2,000 square meters large plot of land to the noble Passeig de Gracia. There should be a special house, which is fine in this area strikes.

In order to build a special house, you need special architects. The husband, Pedro Milà, heard about Gaudí, a Gaudí  very successful and innovative architect. He had just built the house of a wealthy man on the same street, the Casa Batlló. Milà committed Gaudí on the spot and let him make plans for the house. Gaudí began the construction of the house in 1906 and took four years for him to quit.

The nickname "Quarry" was the Casa Milà, however, because of the unusual design. The large stone were slabs first of the facade appropriate and then processed by the craftsmen. The city of Barcelona said the Casa Milà after the completion as a work of art of architecture. The way was also the design, Gaudí used. Thus, the house has a natural ventilation system, which makes air conditioning unnecessary and in the plans of Gaudí there was a lift, but until much later in the apartment house was built. The interior walls can move through a concrete-steel construction, which require no load-bearing walls.

The interior of Casa Milá

Inside the courtyards of the Casa Milà (La Pedrera) decorate and natural colours, rounded shapes the walls. The stairs in the yard, one of the entrances of the apartments, winding along the walls. Many of the interior walls can be moved. In the Belle-Etageis is the art museum Caixa Catalunya.

Gaudi designed the Casa Milà exclusively with natural forms, so that not a single right angle is to find. To visit is not only the yards. Visitors can also experience an apartment in the style of modernism from the beginning of the 20th Century.

Unusually large is the memory of the house. In these areas can be visited an exhibition of the life and structures Gaudí visit. The subdued music and slide shows, it dips into the fascinating world of Gaudí. The highlight in a dual meaning of Casa Milà but is without doubt the roof. Not only the overriding view of the city attracts the eyes of the visitors. Rather, do it the chimneys, ventilation shafts and stairwells with their fanciful colors and shapes. Some chimneys act like soldiers, who watch over the roof.

Since 1984, the Casa Milà is a World Heritage by UNESCO.

Here you will find the Casa Milà (La Pedrera) on the map in district Eixamble.