Park Güell

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  • Address
    Carrer d'Olot 7, North Gràcia
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  • Phone
    93 413 24 00
  • Transport
    bus: 24
underground rail: Lesseps, Vallcarca

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Lonely Planet review

Gaudí's fantasy public park was meant to be a glorious gated playground for Barcelona's rich, but that idea didn't come off . Instead, the town hall bought it in 1922 and opened it to the common folk.

In the park grounds, the Sala Hipóstila is a forest of 84 stone columns, originally intended as a market. Above it is a broad open space whose centrepiece is the Banc de Trenadís, a tiled bench curving sinuously around its perimeter. The spired house to its right is the Casa-Museu Gaudí, where Gaudí lived for most of his last 20 years.