I'll admit that I'd never heard of Gaudi prior to visiting Barcelona, but he's everywhere in that town. His style is based on nature with curved edges, rounded shapes, animals and plants. He was a big fan of doing mosaics, sometimes in the weirdest places, like on the park bench above. He was originally not appreciated by the general public, but a rich industrialist named 'Guell' loved his stuff and supported him.
Parc Guell was intended to be a 60-unit housing project for the rich. He put in all of the pictured park features, with fancy buildings at the entrance, fountains, benches and walkways but the houses never came. At the time the park was too far from the city center and the rich didn't want to be that far away.
The pink house was where he lived, now a museum and .... say it with me ... gift shop.
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