Result of your search for "modernisme"
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On one side, a neo-Gothic palazzo and, on the other, a "modernista" residential block, the Palau Baró de Quadras is a chocolate box bursting with imagination which changes depending on which side you view it from.
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Casa Terradas Casa de les Punxes
A "large Gothic castle" standing in the middle of Barcelona's Avinguda Diagonal which is one of the most recognisable modernista landmarks on the Barcelona skyline.
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It is considered one of the most costly buildings ever built in the city, and it is precisely the combination of simplicity and harmonious décor which imbues the building with its great value and beauty.
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Like a tribute to Gaudí, the Casa Comalat contains many elements of Gaudí's architecture, and is one of the most original examples of home-grown art nouveau in Barcelona: modernisme.
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One of the last modernista buildings in Barcelona stands imposingly on the Avinguda Diagonal, and encapsulates everything the masters of the style had achieved in Barcelona. Graceful and elegant, its beauty lies in the understated curves of the façade.
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An example of the highly decorative, purest modernista style which is fully in keeping with the façades of the buildings in this part of Barcelona's Eixample. Despite subsequent alterations, it reflects the characteristics of its designer: Lluís Domènech i Montaner.
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The Palau Ramon de Montaner, a curiously eclectic modernista building with an Italianate feel.
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A paradigmatic work of Catalan art nouveau, modernisme, replete with symbolism while stripped of dramatism. The idealisation of the female form and the theme of sorrow were characteristic of the taste of the period.
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Like a small diagonal that breaks with the perfect grid layout of the Eixample, the Avinguda Gaudí stretches proudly from the Sagrada Família towards the Hospital de Sant Pau. A semi-pedestrianised street that connects two magnificent landmarks, one by Gaudí and the other by Domènech i Montaner.
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Cripta Gaudí at the Colonia Güell
The Colònia Güell, one of the most pioneering purpose-built industrial villages of the 19th century is located in the town of Santa Coloma de Cervelló, 23 Km to the south-west of Barcelona. Gaudí developed the architectural innovations of his later works in the church crypt, which has been designated a Unesco World Heritage site.
