Barcelona - Parc Guell

These pictures are from Parc Guell - a large park on the outskirts of Barcelona. It was designed by Antoni Gaudi, a famous architect in Barcelona and built between 1900 and 1914. It was orignally designed to be a housing development - but no one wanted to buy a house there, and only two were ever built. The council then turned it into a municpal garden.

We saw a number of Gaudi buildings in Barcelona (more pictures to come). Interestingly, he died after being run over by a tram! This is a famous icon of Barcelona - a mosiac dragon designed by Gaudi.

This is the Serpentine Bench - it took a lot of work to get a section without any people sitting there, as the park was absolutely packed with tourists.

This is the highest point of the park - and everyone likes to play a game of "how many people can we fit on top of the stones".