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Eusebi Güell In 1871 he married Isabel López i Bru, daughter of the Marques de Comillas Antoni López i López. His residence was the marriage Palau Güell Güell in Barcelona. In 1918 shortly before his death Eusebi Güell was ennobled by King Alfonso XIII Güell County. "Count Güell" Eusebi Güell lived in the palace until 1906.

Eusebi Güell i Bacigalupi (1846-1918) Son of Joan Güell i Ferrer industrial, this photo was 25 years.

Antoni Gaudi i Cornet (1852-1926) Reus-Riodoms? (Tarragona)In 1870 he came to Barcelona to study architecture. The friendship and close collaboration with Eusebi Güell made her first major commission belongs to the Palau Güell first stage of Gaudi's work is characterized by a willingness to break with prevailing medieval forms of European architecture. Eusebi Güell With strong background a man of bold entrepreneur and a politician loyal to the ideals of the conservative Catalan, was an advocate of the lyrics and art patron of Catalonia and especially of Antoni Gaudi

Palau Guell first great work entrusted to Antoni Gaudí by Eusebi Güell, his great patron. A magnificent Gothic palace to mark the street Nou de la Rambla de Barcelona. The young Gaudi struggled so much to please his patrons. Only the facade design 25 different projects

The Güell Palace has a Venetian air.

Monumental entrance doors with magnificent parabolic arches and wrought iron railings puffs. The drawing of each of the bars represents two serpents still tangled and enduring the initials of the owner of the house

Decorated with the coat of Catalunya and a helmet with a winged dragon, designed by Joan Oñós. Masterpiece is the shield of Catalonia solid wrought iron, which strategically uses the cabin gate keeper.

Basement stables were the stables for horses and a room for the groom and tack.

In the stables the horses were kept, straw, wood and coal Sensational helical ramps up to the plant that faces the street, paved with pebbles. Basement stables were the stables for horses and a room for the groom and tack.

To highlight the remarkable underground funnel-shaped columns constructed of brick which give an aspect of medieval dungeon.

The mouth of the wolf is a sump to collect rainwater. The stables during the Spanish Civil War came to be used as "Czech" (prison cell).

The entrance and exit to the street are tailored to the carriages of the time, is made for two doors in parabolic arc.The doors are made of a meticulous work of heavy iron bars and chains and metal mesh reminiscent of medieval soldiers dressed.The doors allow the view from the inside out, but the reverse can not see anything

The main staircase that accesses the noble building in the background glazed window with the colors of the flag (senyera) Catalonia

Embossed plate door through which you enter the lobby of the housing

In 1969, the Palau Güell was declared a Historic-Artistic Monument of National Interest, and in 1984 UNESCO declared World Heritage Site Hall of housing

The staircase leads to the gate of the main floor, predominantly marble from the quarry owned by Eusebi Güell Garraf.

The Foyer The Final Foyer staircase and corridor

The visiting room

The Lobby. Bank mating to a column of this artistic marble at a time bank has two functions: the wall of the stairs and seats.

The visiting room

The Visiting Room. The accounting of Count Güell, drew attention to this work, since spending is shot because of the rich ornamentation of this craft.

Gaudí had the collaboration of various craftsmen who normally worked as a bricklayer Agustí Massip, Joan Oñós shapers and brothers Josep Lluís and Badia, cabinetmakers and Julia Solely Eudald and marbles Puntí Ventura brothers.

Gaudi, as well as the facade projects inventive forced 40 different types of columns, a huge variety of windows, doors, stairs and decorative elements such as ventilation and drainage system

Hall of Lost Steps The front platform of the original Gaudí used a system of catenary arches and columns with capitals hiperboloidales, style no employee or former or later Gaudí.

Entrance to the central hall, detail of the streetlights Craft of the Hall of Lost Steps

The Hall of Lost Steps The gallery overlooking the street can observe without being seen from outside, especially the visits.

Craft of the Hall of Lost Steps

The Palau Güell was serving a social function as it was used for political meetings, chamber concerts and visits of distinguished guests. Among the most important were the Queen Regent Maria Cristina, King Umberto of Italy and the United States President Grover Cleveland, among others.

The central hall of this plant occupies about 20 meters in height (about seven floors) and is covered with a Starry double parabolic dome which are small holes through which strained the light rays coming from abroad, which are gloomy and tense atmosphere.

The centerpiece of the plant is a room decorated with murals and topped with a parabolic dome which exceeds the cone-shaped roof, which is pierced by circles, in the light of day, from the interior give the appearance of planetary

Central Hall Dome

On the roof in the middle of which rises a cone, covered with glazed sandstone rock, 15 m. high which is a continuation of the parabolic body with four large openings dishes, illuminates the main hall.

Bust of Joan Güell i Ferrer (father of Eusebi Guell) Nobas Rossend work .

oth the plant as a whole building is organized according to this piece. The room used for meetings, concerts, literary and religious events, etc.

The chapel with its doors open in the Central Hall. With the 12 paintings of the apostles of Aleix Clapés painter.

In this room a small chapel built into the wall with doors decorated with paintings of the twelve apostles of Aleix Clapés

Music room Detail of the railing of the tribune of the musicians.

Staircase leading up to the mezzanine floor (living musicians))

The system used for the construction of Gaudí organ Amezua Aquilino's work was that the tubes through which air moves up to two floors up getting a great sound effect..

The organ pipes in the Central Hall

Gaudí had the collaboration of various craftsmen who normally worked as a bricklayer Agustí Massip, Joan Oñós shapers and brothers Josep Lluís and Badia, cabinetmakers and Julia Solely Eudald and marbles Puntí Ventura brothers.

The Chamber of confidence - and glass swan head

The Fireplace Room confidence, by A. Riquer service makes a prelude to the bedrooms. medallion which contains St. Elizabeth of Hungary (in homage to the women of Güell, Isabel López Bru, daughter of the Marquis de Comillas.

Eusebi Güell had a house in the Boulevard of the Capuchins, adjacent to the site of Nou de la Rambla, which he inherited from his father Joan Güell i Ferrer, which is why he wanted to build a new home that would connect through a courtyard with old one. This is the passage that goes to both houses.

The Hall of tribuna. Dintel carved wood frame. Craft and woodwork, hardwood wonderful work.

The hall of the gallery or smokers.

Facade stands behind the podium with the pottery of the water poured on the top floor we found a balcony decorated with a stunning pergola.

The terrace at noon and the back wall, you can appreciate the rich architectural and efficiently decorativa.Gaudí studied all the technical and structural solutions of the building, an eye for detail aspects such as lighting, ventilation and acoustic insulation from the outside. Wooden platform with glazed ceramic, has a set of Venetian blinds

On the ground floor dining room highlights the very luxurious decor includes marble columns, roofs covered with precious woods, inlaid furniture and fixtures of extraordinary quality.

The dining room furniture designed by Camilo Olivera, highlights its magnificent fireplace

In the dining room has a fireplace behind the pantry with a forklift that was used to

Isabel López bedroom, seen from the entrance

forms Isabel Lopez's room Eusebi Güell wife of the columns are decorated with wrought iron plant

Eusebi Guell bedroom

Bedroom and dressing of Isabel Lopez de Güell

Fireplace designed by GaudI Isabel López bedroom

The Bathroom

On the top floor, (les golgfes) the attic were rooms for the servants, laundry and cooking, and is accessed via the stairs.

Parabolic dome which exceeds the cone-shaped roof, which is perforated by circles, the pinnacle is an extension of the dome of the central hall .

It also stresses the high needle-shaped lantern is the exterior shot of the dome of the central hall, also made of ceramic and topped with a weather vane of iron, which contains the compass rose, a bat and a Greek cross.

In this roof are 20 different ways fireplaces, brick, brick or ceramic coated revoked cut, which served as a vent or flue.

The roof with its chimneys and vents that resemble pine cone is probably one of the first drafts, but a great master of what would reach perfection, functional and decorative element at a time, with the warriors of the roof of La Pedrera.

In this work, Gaudi first used the "trencadis" (surface coatingirregular fragments of mosaic, which was then widely used in Modernism .

Eusebi Güell lived in the palace until 1906, when he moved to the House Larrard in the Park Güell, where he lived until his death in 1918