La Pedrera

La Pedrera is an apartment building by Gaudi, 4 blocks or so from the Block of Discord (all this is in the Example, the Extension, the new (c. 1880) addition that adjoins the old city from the Plaza de Catalan). It is part Gaudi museum and showplace but is also still occupied by a few (very wealthy) residents and a few offices.  It was just as incredible inside as outside.

La Pedrera, frontal view

Looking up from the entry

In the foyer

There is a furnished apartment on the 5th floor, part of the

museum, all done up in Modernista, that is, art nouveau,

incredibly beautiful stuff

Roof ornamentation

Closer up

More roof ornmentation; as we'll see, much

of his work involves broken tile--they can

be set in curves that unbroken tiles cannot

Gaudi chimneys

From the roof, a mile or so away, the

Sagrada Familia, Gaudi's church, which

we'll see a lot more of...

And the Torre Agbar, which is 20th century,

not Gaudi, but fits Barcelona just as well

Interior structural support for the roof

Pedrera by night