Barcelona is full of astounding architecture, and is a unique European city in this respect. What gives architecture in Barcelona it's unique organic style is Gaudi.
Born near Reus in Catalonia, Spain, as a young boy his frail health isolated him from his peers. During his time alone he developed a fascination for, and appreciation of, nature, which would highly influence his architectural style.
He studied in Barcelona, where upon being awarded the title of Architect, his professor commented "Who knows if we have given this diploma to a nut or to a genius. Time will tell."Many of Gaudi's major works were sponsored by his patron, a Barcelona industrialist who respected the work of Guell and shared his devout Catholicism.
In Gaudi's later years Gaudi became reclusive, living in the crypt of his still unfinished but often considered his greatest work, La Sagarad Familia church. In 1926, on the 7th of June a tram knocked him over, but wearing only rags, with no money in his pockets, he was taken to a poor people's hospital where he died a few days later.
The Gaudi architecture that you must see when visiting Barcelona is listed below:
- Sagrada Familia. The Roman Catholic church, The Church of the Holy Family was Gaudi's obsession. Construction started in 1882 and still under cntruction today, expected completion is 2026, although contruction has accelerated in the last decade.
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