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2. 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
Eusebi Güell i Bacigalupi (1846-1918) Son of County. "Count Güell" Eusebi Güell
Joan Güell i Ferrer industrial, this photo was lived in the palace until 1906.
25 years.

3. 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

4. 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

5. The Güell Palace has a Venetian air.

6. 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

7. 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.

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

9. 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.

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

11. 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).

12. 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

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

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

15. 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

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

17. The visiting room The Foyer The Final Foyer staircase and
corridor

18. 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.

19. The visiting room

20. 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.

21. 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.

22. 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

23. 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.

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

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

26. Craft of the Hall of Lost Steps

27. 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.

28. 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.

29. 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

30. Central Hall Dome

31. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

38. 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..

39. The organ pipes in the Central Hall

40. 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

41. 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.

42. 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.

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

44. The hall of the gallery or smokers.

45. 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.

46. 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

47. 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.

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

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

50. Isabel López bedroom, seen from the entrance

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

52. Eusebi Guell bedroom

53. Bedroom and dressing of Isabel Lopez de Güell

54. Fireplace designed by GaudI Isabel López bedroom

55. The Bathroom

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

57. 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 .

58. 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.

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

61. 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.

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

68. 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