Gaudí House Museum

Antoni Gaudí, a confirmed bachelor, lived for 20 years in the Park Güell with his elderly father and niece in the Torre Rosa, designed by Francesc Berenguer as a house to show potential buyers—there were none (or so they said), so Gaudí bought it.

It’s a rosy-pink cottage with green shutters and creamy swirls around the windows and doors, with a morel-shaped chimney covered with trencadis and a little garden filled with sculpted flowers, which Gaudí wrought from bits of cast-off fencing.

Now the Casa-Museu Gaudí it contains drawings and examples of the wonderful organic furniture that Gaudí designed for the Palau Güell, the Casa Calvet and Casa Batlló: plush, gold-embossed, curving seats for people with very small behinds; chairs based on bone structures; immense wooden cabinets that seem to ripple along the walls; and dripping stained-glass chandeliers.

Upstairs is Gaudí’s bedroom, incongruously simple with a narrow bed and a framed copy of his prayer book and death mask. A reverential cabinet holds a touchingly sparse collection of his effects, including a napkin ‘used by Gaudí with his initials’. It's almost like visit the abode of a saint, which, if the association sponsoring his beatification has its way, he will almost be.

Practical Info

In the Park Güell, C/ Olot. At the time of writing, only virtual online visits available.

www.casamuseugaudi.org

+34 93 219 38 11