Park Güell, 08024 Barcelona
Visit this iconic green space in the city of Barcelona, a key work of Guadí.
Buy tickets for the Park Güell and go deep into a natural environment, which has more than 17 hectares, a reflection of Gaudian art. A visit that mixes nature and art; and that you can not miss if you decide to spend a few days in Barcelona.
Park Güell is a prodigious park, proof of Gaudi's unlimited creativity; composed of incredible gardens and impressive modernist buildings.
While you walk, you will have the opportunity to admire the perfect union between nature and architecture and you will find amazing details at every step you take.
Its construction was commissioned by Eusebi Güell as a residential complex for the Barcelona aristocracy but finally the idea was just thrown away and the park became a large private garden. Later, after the death of Güell, it was sold to the Barcelona City Council.
Park Güell covers an area of 17 hectares and was declared a Unesco World Heritage Site in 1984. It consists of two areas: the monumental area, which is essential to enter, and the free access zone, free of charge.
The Park Güell has a wide schedule in which it is open every day of the year, from 08:00 to 21:00.
Park Güell has rehabilitation works so your visit could be affected by the works.
Repair works at the Park Güell entrance on Baixada de La Glòria
Restoration works in Nature Square
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The park is located on Calle Olot in the city of Barcelona.
When Park Güell began to be built in 1900, Barcelona was a modern and cosmopolitan metropolis whose economy was based on the strength of its industry and which had over half a million inhabitants. Its walls had been knocked down nearly half a century earlier and the new city, the Eixample planned by engineer Ildefons Cerdà, had grown spectacularly from 1860 onwards, in what was the largest 19th century city development project in Europe.
Ildefons Cerdà had made a thorough study of the difficulties of modern growth within the walled Barcelona and the impact of technological changes, especially the railway. The plan for his Pla d’Eixample proposal increased the area of Barcelona tenfold, as the result of a practical vision of the city. Cerdà conceived the plan as a flexible instrument undertaken with a reformist spirit in order to foster the formation of a modern city that would be more effective, healthier and fairer.
Barcelona expanded very rapidly throughout the second half of the 19th century, with the Eixample spreading out over the plain. Its central area began to take shape as a large bourgeois centre, while development also advanced along its flanks, in the direction of the old manufacturing areas on the plain, with a more popular and industrial nature.
The Universal Exhibition of 1888 showed Europe and the world the dynamic thrust of Barcelona, capital of a Catalan nation being reborn, and boosted the quest for a new artistic language and idiom of urban representation. That explained the success of the Modernisme movement, very much in evidence at the heart of the Eixample, and the work of an architect as singular as Antoni Gaudí.
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Duration(Spain) 19/09/2019
access fast and easy
(Argentina) 19/08/2019
good experiencie, aesy acces and thanks.
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