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The Fundació Caixa Catalunya has opened the top-floor apartment, attic and roof,
together called the Espai Gaudí (Gaudí Space), to visitors. The roof is the most ex-
traordinary element, with its giant chimney pots looking like multicoloured medieval
knights. Gaudí wanted to put a tall statue of the Virgin up here too: when the Milà fam-
ily said no, fearing it might make the building a target for anarchists, Gaudí resigned
from the project in disgust.
One floor below the roof, where you can appreciate Gaudí's taste for parabolic
arches, is a modest museum dedicated to his work. The next floor down is the apart-
ment (El Pis de la Pedrera). It is fascinating to wander around this elegantly furnished
home, done up in the style a well-to-do family might have enjoyed in the early 20th
century. There are sensuous curves and unexpected touches in everything from light
fittings to bedsteads, from door handles to balconies.
NEED TO KNOW
Casa Milà; ; 902 400973;
www.fundaciocaixacatalunya.es
;
Carrer de Provença 261-265; adult/stu-
dent/child €15/13.50/7.50;
9am-8pm Mar-Oct, to 6.30pm Nov-Feb;
Diagonal
Museum
MUSEU DE CARROSSES FÚNEBRES
( 902 076902; Carrer de Sancho d'Àvila 2; 10am-1pm & 4-6pm Mon-Fri, 10am-1pm Sat, Sun & holi-
days; Marina)
If late-18th-century to mid-20th-century hearses (complete with period-
dressed dummies) are your thing, then this museum, probably the city's weirdest sight, is
where to contemplate the pomp and circumstance of people's last earthly ride.
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