The Parc Güell is certainly one of the most famous sights of Barcelona. World famous is the breakthrough ceramics decorated winding bank above the peculiarly Roman temples copied by the market hall. Gaudí has created with this park a fabulous forest. Take a little quiet time to the Parc Güell to be enchanted.

Main entrance to the Parc Güell

The Parc Güell has multiple entrances. The most certain is the main access from the Carrer d'Olot. Typical of Gaudí are the two pavilions with cafe on both sides of the entrance.
If you go straight through of these buildings, you get to a staircase, which is guarded in the middle by a friendly dragon. The dragon is decorated as well as the surrounding walls and the famous bank above the market hall with breakthrough ceramics.

From the staircase you get to a very unusual room. Consisting of 86 columns, it was originally thought of as a marketplace of the residential area - the originally determining of the Parc Güell.

Market hall and the winding bank

The columned hall, forest of Roman-inspired columns, support the main eye catcher, the large terrace. Originally, the hall was planned as a market hall for residential area only. The allusion to Roman temple refers to a Roman road that led here.

The columns worn by the terrace is bordered by a fraction ceramic excessive balustrade with a bank. This bank is world famous. Salvador Dalí called the bank once the precursor of surrealism.
Colourful like children's toys it winds in snake-lines, creating small niches and gives a splendid view over the city.

Beyond the square the actual green space begins.

The gardens of the Parc Güell are fabulous

The plant, high above the city, must have been a particular challenge for Gaudí. Here, he had the opportunity to make his natural art with nature itself. The result is a Mar Cheng species, influenced by tiny details. The gardens of the Parc Güell is a careful and original in the landscape built maze of trails, courses, walls and bridges.

For the tour of the park you should take a lot more time, because there are many details to discover.

After walking the park you know it is worth a visit to the Gaudí Museum in his former residence. The museum is about 200 meters in an easterly direction from the main entrance.

History of the Parc Güell

In 1885 Gaudí's patron, the industrialist Eusebi Güell, acquired the terrain on a mountain ridge, with a fantastic view of Barcelona.

In1890 Güell instructed the architect Antoni Gaudí to build a garden city, in which nature and an equal housing should form a symbiosis. In addition to the Sagrada Familia, this was the largest project of Gaudí.

Finished were only two buildings, roads and the extensive garden. Planned were 60 villas, but nobody was not interested.

The park was opened in 1922.

In 1963, the former residence of Gaudí was opened as a museum.

In 1984, the park was included in the UNESCO list of cultural heritage.

How best to get the Parc Güell?

With the underground line L3 go to the station Lesseps. From there it's 10-15 minutes on foot. Go from the station from the main road Travessera de Dalt up (not the great guide to follow) to the left side of a road with the not very simple name "Avinguda del Santuari de Sant Josep de la Muntanya". These go up until the end of the Carrer d'Ot. You will see the entrance already.
On our map we have drawn the way for you.
If you follow the signs, you can reach the Parc Güell through a side entrance, it is convenient the last metres for you on escalators drove up the mountain. You leave the Parc at the main entrance and go back the way as described above.

Here you will find the Parc Güell on the map.