Posts Tagged ‘parks’

Parc Güell,

By admin • Apr 7th, 2008 • Category: - Parks & Gardens

Parc Güell, his playful 50-acre park - When Eusebio Güell bough the land in 1900, he planned for Gaudí to create an urban community for the wealthy, a village modeled on English garden suburbs. The project never came to fruition, abandoned in 1914. Sixty housing sites were provided, but only two houses were ever built. [...]