Casa Batllo

Casa Batllo was absolutely my favorite site in Barcelona...which is saying something because I enjoyed my whole experience in that Spanish city. This house designed and built by the genius architect Antonio Gaudi literally breaths with life. Visitors will be hard pressed to find a straight line in the whole structure and it is clear that every detail of the home was meticulously considered. I am someone who has a hard time just sitting in one place and yet before I even entered the building I felt compelled to sit on a bench across the street admiring its unique design. In Barcelona La Sangrada Faamilia is Gaudi' far more famous structure and that church is grand but unlike La Sangrada Familia this building was actually finished in Gaudi's lifetime. Although not every detail has been preserved since the master architect and designer finished this project much of it is still as he planned for it to be. I am an avid reader of fantasy literature and perhaps that is at the root of why I fell in love with this building. For with it's flowing lines an ample natural lighting it seems to be thee sort of structure that an elf would create a structure more alive than most modern architecture...I do not have words enough to describe the experience of this home. Only that I put an image of it in my heart and know that it will provide me with inspiration when I build and design my own home.

Casa Batllo (Batio /Batjo) is one of Antoni Gaudi remarkable masterpieces. A houce which he renovated in 1905. I would say he more or less rebuilt it, because of his influence I guess - their hasn't been much left of the old substance.

Often if you seen bulidings designed by architects you find places and parts which hasn't been well deliberate. Not so in this Casa, Neraly everything was designed by Gaudi and thats what makes this place so special. Staring from the hull of the building which remembers you of the sea, all the interior work everything seems to fit together.

I was facinated by the uper floor which was meant only for the houskeeping work. But renovated and painted white it looks like a piece of modern art. If you like the architecture of Gaudi, Barcelona is the place to be.