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La Pedrera. Fundació Caixa Catalunya

The Casa Milà, known locally as La Pedrera – the Catalan for stone quarry – is a unique building designed by the architectural genius Antoni Gaudí. It was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1984 and is currently the headquarters of the Fundació Caixa Catalunya, one of Barcelona’s key cultural facilities.

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Gaudí’s masterpiece of La Pedrera bears witness to the triumph of the curve and the sculptural concept of his architecture. The visit to La Pedrera currently includes two areas of the building: the exhibition space and rooftop, the Espai Gaudí, and the period apartment.

The Espai Gaudí is housed in two spaces which embody the essence of Gaudí’s architecture: the attic and the roof. The attic space features a highly illustrative exhibition about the architect’s work, and consists of 270 catenary arches, made of flat brick, which create a structure resembling a skeleton. The impressive undulating rooftop is crowned by chimney pots covered in trencadís, (mosaics made from broken pieces of tile) which still fascinate visitors with their phantasmagorical forms.

The fourth floor of the Fundació de Caixa Catalunya’s building houses a recreation of an apartment decorated in the early 20th-century style which retains the original layout of the rooms and period features.
Address: Provença, 261-265
Town: 08008 Barcelona
Phone: 934 845 900
Web site: www.fundaciocaixacatalunya.org
How to get there: Metro L3 and L5, stop Diagonal. | Bus 7, 16, 17, 22, 24 and 28. | FGC, stop Provença. | Barcelona Bus Turístic, stop Pg. de Gràcia-La Pedrera.
Opening time:
From November to February, daily from 9am to 6.30pm.
From Mars to October, daily from 9 to 8pm.
January 1st & 6th, December 25th & 26th closed.

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