Casa Batllo

The Casa Batllo is a building restored by Antoni Gaudí and Josep Maria Jujol, built in the year 1877 and remodelled in the years 1905–1907; located at 43, Passeig de Gràcia, part of the Illa de la Discòrdia in the Eixample district of Barcelona, Catalonia. The local name for the building is Casa dels ossos (House of Bones), and indeed it does have a visceral, skeletal organic quality. It was originally designed for a middle-class family and situated in a prosperous district of Barcelona.

The building looks very remarkable — like everything Gaudí designed, only identifiable as Modernisme or Art Nouveau in the broadest sense. The ground floor, in particular, is rather astonishing with tracery, irregular oval windows and flowing sculpted stone work.

It seems that the goal of the designer was to avoid straight lines completely. Much of the façade is decorated with a mosaic made of broken ceramic tiles (trencadís) that starts in shades of golden orange moving into greenish blues. The roof is arched and was likened to the back of a dragon or dinosaur. A common theory about the building is that the rounded feature to the left of centre, terminating at the top in a turret and cross, represents the sword of Saint George (patron saint of Catalonia), which has been plunged into the back of the dragon.

	Visit Information
	Address:	Pg. de Gràcia, 43 - 08007 BARCELONA
	Phone:	+34 934 880 666
	Opening Time:	Daily, from 9am to 8pm.
	Tickets:	17,50 €
	Buy tickets on-line:	On-line purchase
	How to get there:	Metro L2, L3 and L4, stop Passeig de Gràcia. | Bus 7, 16, 17, 22, 24 and 28. Barcelona Bus Turístic, stop Casa Batlló
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