| Description | Photograph of Antoni Gaudí i Cornet. The house built by Gaudí for industrialist Josep Batlló between 1905 and 1907. Exterior details showing its "dragon" features.
Interior views. Exterior details of the Casa Amatller, designed by Josep Puig i Cadafalch in 1900. Exterior of the house of Lleó Morera, built by Domènech i Montaner in 1905. Details of Domènech i Montaner’s Hospital de Sant Pau (1901-1905). Domènech’s Palau de la Música Catalana, opened in 1908. Exterior and interior details, photograph of Amedeu Vives, busts of Josep Anselm Clavé and Ludwig van Beethoven, representation of Walkyrie, etc. The organs with inset of Montserrat Caballé singing Vives’s song The Immigrant. Caballé explains the lyrics of The Immigrant to Hughes. More detail views of the Palau, including the stained glass skylight. Caballé talking about her debut at the Palau. More interior details. The stage wall ceramic sculptures by Eusebi Arnau. The organ with, inset, Caballé taking a bow. Aerial view over Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia. View from within the walls. Hughes gives the building’s full name as "The Expiatory Temple of the Holy Family" or the "Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Familia", and says that Gaudí worked on it from the 1880s until his accidental death in 1926. Details of the architecture. Views up inside the towers. Exterior spires. View down from a spire. Aerial view of the building. Cleaning the case of a model of the Sagrada Familia. Exterior views including new work by sculptor Josep Maria Subirachs, with a brief shot of the sculptor himself at work Japanese tourists at the Sagrada Familia. Hughes reads entries in visitors’ book. Night scenes. Night-time exterior of the Casa Batlló. Night-time exterior of the Sagrada Familia. Hughes talking to Catalan friends about the Sagrada Familia over dinner. Most of them think of it as nothing more than tourist attraction. |
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