The Crypt of the Colònia Güell It is the work that served as a testing ground for the Sagrada Familia, the most surprising workshop of architectural innovation of the 20th century.

The laboratory of Gaudí

La Crypt from the Colònia Güell It is the work that served From a testing laboratory for the Sagrada Familia, the most surprising architectural innovation workshop of the 20th century, the place where creativity explodes Gaudí and where Gaudí "surpassed all the limits established in the world of forms ” in the words of the Japanese architect Arata Isozaki.

La Colònia Güell It is an atypical industrial colony for its time. In it Gaudí and his friend the Count Güell They implemented the main technical advances of the time, as well as the most innovative social reforms. In the unfinished church of the colony, the Crypt, Gaudí He captured all his creative effervescence and his complete genius, and devised the constructive and formal approaches of his new architecture that he would carry out in the Sacred Family.

The laboratory of Gaudí

La Crypt of the Colònia Güell It is the work that served as a testing laboratory for the Sagrada Familia, the most surprising architectural innovation workshop of the 20th century, the place where creativity explodes Gaudí and where Gaudí "surpassed all the limits established in the world of forms ” in the words of the Japanese architect Arata Isozaki.

La Colònia Güell It is an atypical industrial colony for its time. In it Gaudí and his friend the Count Güell They implemented the main technical advances of the time, as well as the most innovative social reforms. In the unfinished church of the colony, the Crypt, Gaudí He captured all his creative effervescence and his complete genius, and devised the constructive and formal approaches of his new architecture that he would carry out in the Sagrada Familia.

Your method

The great attitude of Gaudí His revolutionary nature as an artist lies in his highly original method. It is not without reason that he has been compared to his contemporary Van Gogh for the brilliant expression of color, with Leonardo da Vinci by continuous invention, with J. S. Bach for its technical and symbolic perfection. Committed to his time, Gaudí He was the inventor of constructive forms, a master of symbol and scientific rationality, an observer who loved Nature, an ecologist and recycler, religious and with a social conscience for the working class.

Gaudí He was a scientist of architecture. That's why his attitude and working method were relentless, rigorous, honest, and daring. The fact that no one had ever done it before was no impediment to him getting to work. It's clear that an artist who identifies Art with Beauty and Beauty with Life, as the radiance of Truth, a bar of maximum self-demand is imposed. Therefore, it is not at all strange that Le Corbusier I admired him, Miró I honored him and Dalí recovered it for the History of Art.

Fine Gaudí

The work of Gaudí He is mostly based in Catalonia, although he also worked in other parts of Spain, such as Comillas (Cantabria), Astorga and León (Castilla y León) or Palma de Mallorca.

One of the issues that marks his work and more specifically the construction of the Crypt of the Colònia Güell It is the relationship between the architect and the patron Eusebi Güell after his trip to Paris to visit the Universal Exhibition of 1878. Gaudí At that time, a 26-year-old man. From then on, a genuine friendship developed between the two characters.

The work of Gaudí It is usually classified as between religious and residential work, but to facilitate your visit, the main works are classified below based on their geographical location, highlighting those declared World Heritage Sites by UNESCO.

Fine Gaudí

The work of Gaudí He is mostly based in Catalonia, although he also worked in other parts of Spain, such as Comillas (Cantabria), Astorga and León (Castilla y León) or Palma de Mallorca.

In Barcelona

The Expiatory Temple of the Sagrada Familia: the façade of the Nativity and the Crypt of the Sagrada Familia: UNESCO World Heritage Site
Vicens House: UNESCO World Heritage Site
La Finca Güell
The Palau GüellUNESCO World Heritage Site
The Mataronense worker
The Teresian College
The Calvet house
Casa Batlló: UNESCO World Heritage Site
Casa Milá (La Pedrera): UNESCO World Heritage Site
Holy Family Schools
Streetlights by Barcelona City Council
The Park GüellUNESCO World Heritage Site
Bellesguard
Wineries Güell (Gaudí-Berenguer)
Gate of the Miralles Estate
The crypt of the Colònia GüellUNESCO World Heritage Site

In the rest of Catalonia

Artigas Gardens, in Pobla de Lillet

In Spain

The Capricho of Comillas (Santander)
The Episcopal Palace of Astorga
Restoration of the Seu de Mallorca
The Botines House, in León