2. What is?Where is located?
Is located in the Gràcia district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Park Güell
is a garden complex with architectural elements designed by the
Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí and built from 1900 to 1914.
Covering an area of over 17 hectors it is one of the largest
architectural works in south Europe.
3. The park was originally intended to be a residential complex and consist of 60 luxury houses.
The idea for the site was that of Count Eusebi Güell, after whom the park was named and was
based on the English garden city movement.
Güell appointed Gaudí to draw up plans for the developing and work started in October 1900
with the dividing the site into levels, by January 1903 the two entrance pavilions had been
constructed.
