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4. Park Güell
Park Güell has a well-earned reputation for being one of the more stunning icons in all of
Barcelona. Famed designer and architect Antoni Gaudi was responsible for this skillfully de-
signed masterpiece, which offers amazing views of the surrounding city. A visit to the park
offers a walk around some wonderful modernist works of art, each unique and impressive in
its own way.
Park Güell was once a part of a planned housing development that was ultimately proven to
be a commercial failure. The brainchild of Count Eusebi Güell, and inspired by the popular
English garden city movement, fresh air and stunning views of the city were considered to
be the major draw. Larrard House was already on the site, with sixty luxuriously designed
homes being planned. Two houses were built, neither of which were by Gaudi, but the archi-
tect did ultimately purchase one of the two houses and move into it with his family in 1906.
The house contains many of Gaudi's original works, and is now a museum dedicated to the
life of this great visionary.
