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The gatehouse is out of a fairy tale; the house opposite is a like the gingerbread house in Hansel and Gretel - and has an enormous turret on top. A sweeping balcony further up the hill gives a wonderful view of the city, and is decorated with mosaics in every colour. And of course the edge is wave-like. Further up the hill again is a kind of walk made from stone pillars. But being designed by Gaudi, they’re made from stones of all shapes sitting on each other, and seemingly barely holding together.
The other house that was completed is slightly more ‘normal’ but only slightly. There is a long stone corridor with more of Gaudi’s leaning columns - and built onto these are all sorts of statues, some very defined, some only just creeping out of the rock. Across from there is the area beneath the balcony (when I say balcony, I’m talking about something that’s at least half an acre), in which the usual round columns you’d see in most places appear - but they’re everywhere. And between them, on the ceiling, are large plates of mosaics, not set into the ceiling but hanging from it.
The man must have had a wonderful sense of humour as well as design. Though how he persuaded some people to take up his ideas is something I’d like to know! Maybe the Spaniards are more open to quirkiness than other people.