4. My favourite places in Barcelona

4. My favourite places in Barcelona - Casa Batlló

Casa Batlló is my favourite building designed by the most famous Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí. It was the first thing which I saw in Barcelona when I came there for the very first time. I will never forget this moment. This amazing work of art is just beautiful.

This is the moment when I saw Caso Batlló for the first time!

The building was constructed in 1877 and renovated according to Gaudi's design 27 years later for Batlló family. Josep Batlló I Casanovas was a textile industrialist who owned a few factories in Barcelona. He and his wife asked Gaudi to design a building that no one had ever seen before. The Catalan artist used the opportunity and created something really excepcional. The Catalan name for the building is Casa dels ossos (House of Bones) because the facade of the building has the form of a skull. What I like the most of Casa Batlló is that is decorated with a mosaic of broken ceramic tiles. Thanks to that Casa Batlló has so many colours.

I am very impressed every time I see the building. I think that if you visited Barcelona and you didn't see Casa Batlló it's like you've never been there. Fortunately, Casa Battló is situated in the center of Barcelona so it's impossible to miss it.

Believe me, it's really worth too see it ;)

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