GÜELL PARK, Introduction
- Audio File length: 2.31
- Author: STEFANO ZUFFI E DAVIDE TORTORELLA
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Language: English / USA
Hi, I'm James, your personal guide. Together with MyWoWo, I'd like to welcome you to one of the wonders of the world.
Today I'll accompany you through Güell Park, which is one of the most fairy-tale like places in Barcelona!
The park is a brain-child born from the inexhaustible imagination of Anton Gaudí, and it offers you the chance to take a break from the city's frenetic pace while enjoying stunning architecture immersed in a green setting.
As I have already said a few times, Gaudí never considered any of his works completely "finished". Everything was shaped and changed in time and space. The architect almost never made "designs": his phantasmagoric constructions usually started off from a graphic sketch, which was often just a scribbled "idea" that was more like a painting, which then took shape in the day-to-day work at the construction site....