Palau Guell, 1

So here, in two posts, is our tour of Palau Guell, Gaudi's first big piece for the ultra-wealthy Guell family. Built in the later 1890s, it is truly a palace, if a smaller one, but in it one can clearly see all of the Gaudi features that would follow. Palau Guell is now owned by the Barcelona city council--it cracks me up that the Catalan for "city council" is "disputatio"--wonderfully renovated and re-opened just in 2012.