Sunday, June 04, 2006

Parc Guell

Barcelona:

Parc Guell-

Apparently this Park has the worlds longest bench, that is unless the American's have gone one better. The park was part of a plan by Count Eusebi Guell to create a garden city with numerous houses and public buildings in landscaped grounds. Much of this did not materialise, but what can be seen was completed in 1922. The bench designed by Josep Jujol measure 152 metres long and is covered in glass and ceramic mosaic. At the front entrance there are two buildings that look like they are made from gingerbread and as on the chimnies of Casa Mila the two pavillians are capped in ceramic mosaics.


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