After visiting the Llobregat sources, we visited a little known work of Antoni Gaudí, the architect of the Sagrada Familia and Parc Güell . Reached the village of La Pobla de Lillet, about 100 kms. north of Barcelona.
strolled in front of a cinema that had known better days. I could imagine people dressed in their best clothes, night crossing the bridge over the river, anxious to be for a while voyeurs away with a life in black and white.
After lunch we decided to drive to the Gardens of Artigas, the work that had brought us to the people. A sign indicating a direction unlikely, after seeking guidance went into a long corridor, crossing their fingers that were not from any car in front to make me go back. Of course, this did nothing to start. Turns out
Güell, Gaudí's main patron, was the owner of the main factory English cement, located near the source of the Llobregat. He asked, then, friend Antoni to build a house for miners. While he did his stuff, was staying at the home of a textile called Artigas. When Gaudi was a gesture of gratitude, he designed gardens.
Now that you are the protagonists, is that Güell was even a cable car and a train to move the material itself. That train, which makes sightseeing today, passing in front of the property of Artigas.
In conclusion, I suddenly found the car in a kind of square crossed by a railway. There seemed no way out the passage through which he came. Then, from a balcony, a neighbor shouted something. "By the way, by the way!" So, as one of those movies of persecution, I went to the car by the way, no way out to the sides in case the train came. I drove as fast as possible, knowing they reduced the chance to find them on the road. Few minutes were very long, maybe five, maybe ten, and finally found a landing where to park the car on the side.
This is the street where you live the tourist train (which runs every half hour) and cars in both directions (which happen when you want). That perspective does not deceive: is about three meters wide in total.
Relieved at not having found anything on the road, I stopped the car and went down to the gardens.
This is the bridge over the Llobregat, which passes through the middle.
Although we were near the headwaters of the river, rushing down.
Photos from the bridge. The arches were identical to the Parc Güell:
The railing, with details of the striations, was the detail I liked the place:
The couple "head Pinchudos" guarded by a second bridge:
A local beauty, sitting at the family picnic table:
Bridge climb from the river:
Gaudi liked to draw on natural forms for his sculptures. La Sagrada Familia, for example, is full of geometric shapes based on strange fruits and flowers.
This esplanade seemed a fitting weapon for a war that never was:
The bridge, a hit . I want one of these for my garden. I want a garden.
In the past, may have done this Gaudí Tile eagle. But it was 1905:
the source water was a little Saladita, but 37 degrees was the best alternative
pity that the river was thawing, which i got.
This was the exit of a cave / gazebo, built in the middle of a cliff.
This huge construction was to be the home of Artigas.
Before we left, took a walk on the other riverbank.
seems natural, but neither is:
This source is incredible. With its moss and dozens of waterfalls, I was mesmerized for a few minutes. I also want a of these to my garden nonexistent.
The same source, from another angle. My camera does strange things with light. I think he wants to change it.
Before I left, I took a stroll along the River.
Upon leaving, I found the front train:
As I knew I had a few minutes to escape, and as long the train would reach me in the back, left more quietly. I crossed the square and followed by other routes 5 kilometers, these houses on the sides and the odd hole for neighbors to park their cars. We reached the road and went back to Barcelona.
In short, I think the Artigas Gardens have little to envy to Parc Güell, except as accessible location (in the middle of Barcelona) and its dimensions. But Artigas Gardens, meanwhile, play a lot with the river flowing through the middle, they have almost no visitors, and there are some ideas and details that are not present in the other. For those who like modernism, I think it is a must, and for those who can not yet recommend it as one of the most interesting sites in the north of the province.
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