Built between 1904 and 1906 in the heart of Barcelona, Casa Batllo is undoubtedly one of Gaudi's most famous masterpieces, inspired by the underwater world.
Gaudi gave the building a unique, fantastical look. He ordered the building to have wavy lines, and made use of ceramic tiles and stained glass Mosaic walls, giving the entire building a glass-like aesthetic. As you go up the layers, the color of the tiles gradually deepens as you get closer to the top floor, the stairs are lined with water-patterned glass, and the color of the wall tiles changes from light blue to dark blue through the glass, the entire apartment seems to be in the ocean.
Casa Batllo is different from Gaudi's other buildings in that its exterior walls are all decorated with blue and green ceramics, a strange color combination that looks like an Impressionist palette from afar, but the colors are so harmonious that Salvador Dali once likened the facade to "a peaceful lake."
The doors, Windows, roof and roof of Casa Batllo are all large wavy curves, the lines of the ground and ceiling are extremely rounded, and even the lamps and some furniture in the room are personally designed by Gaudi in order to coordinate with the style of the room itself, so that the layout of the room is more like Gaudi's original design.
The entrance to Casa Batllo and the walls on the second floor below are designed to mimic lava and caves, the balcony railings on the upper floors resemble masquerades, the roof ridges resemble scaly animal backs, and the minarets and other protrusions on the roof are grotesquely shaped and covered with colorful porcelain fragments.
Casa Batllo's exterior is covered in blue-hued Spanish tiles. The six-story building is eerie, with terraces designed like skulls, pillars like bones and a roof like a fish's back covered in scales.
In 2005, it was listed as a World Cultural Heritage site by UNESCO.
The sun sets after 9 p.m. in Barcelona these days, so buy a night show and go to Casa Batllo at dusk!
I can see the facade again in the daylight, flashing yellow, green and blue, and the mixed colors of the tiles remind me of Monet Interior lighting is also a different style, the stairwell is like the bottom of the sea, the laundry room on the top floor is also bathed in pink light, really good romantic.
There is also a small egg, I don't know if you have seen the back of Casa Batllo, because the guesthouse we stayed in Barcelona at that time was in the same block as Casa Batllo, and the back of Casa Batllo was seen from the balcony.
There is really a feeling of traveling in the sea, explaining that it is the shape of water splashing on the ground, really shocked me for a hundred years.
A large number of natural elements completely jump out of the square architectural design, and every detail you can think of is the natural life he shows you Scales, spray, shells, ocean spine hovering in front of the straight, the most like the three-piece meowed, too beautiful too beautiful!
Worth the ticket price! It is recommended to buy a golden ticket, the only problem is that it gets hotter the further up the stairs you go (you really get sunstroke in Spain)!
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