Hotels around Barcelona Art Nouveau Route - Mountain Area

Our centrally hotels around the nearest hotels to Barcelona Art Nouveau route - Mountain area:
U232 Hotel  | Hotel Europark

Most interesting buildings and landmarks in this area: 

Park Güell (1900-1914)  6  Architect: Antoni Gaudí.
 A city park without parallel, built between 1900 and 1914, Park Güell, open to the public since 1922, has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It was originally conceived as a housing development removed from the hustle and bustle of the city, but the project failed, and only two of its 60 intended plots were ever constructed. The park is surrounded by a wall and two fortified, tile-encrusted towers that stand at its main entrance.
Two central spaces stand out: the Hall of the 100 Columns, which really only houses 86, in the Doric style, and leads to a sinuous cornice decorated in polychromatic ceramics. A beautiful staircase connects this space to the Great Circular Square, which grants truly excellent views of the city. The abstract ornamental work of Josep Jujol enhances this ingenuous complex.

Hospital de Sant Pau (1902)  25  Architect:Lluís Domènech i Montaner.
c/ Sant Antoni Mª Claret, 167.
This complex elegantly and efficiently accommodates the hospital functions for which it was constructed with the artistic and highly original elements of its structure.
Stained glass windows are ever-present in this monument, a World Heritage Site since 1977. Its prominent sculptures, gargoyles, frescoes and reliefs are the work of Pau Gargallo, and underground tunnels connect various buildings on the complex.
The entire monument and its 48 pavilions were designed to both facilitate the work of healthcare professionals who work there and to offer its visitors an open-air museum experience. Sculptural craftsmanship and wrought iron details adorn the operating rooms, library, chapel, and emergency rooms of this magnificent complex.
Its numerous pavilions in Neo-Arab style are flanked by gorgeous gardens.

Pavellons Güell (1887)  30  Architect: Antoni Gaudí.
Av. de Pedralbes, 7.
In 1883, Eusebi Güell (Gaudí’s patron) decided to expand the immense country estate that his father had bought in the Pedralbes area years before. He commissioned part of the renovation to Gaudí, from 1884 to 1887, under the direction of Joan Martorell. Gaudí designed the gardens and pavilions at the entrance to the estate from the Sarrià roadway (today Passeig Manuel Girona). By the end of the 19th Century, the Güells were summering and farming at the country estate.

The Hesperides Garden, and its rendering in L'Atlàntida, a poem by Jacinct Verdaguer, served as Gaudí’s prime inspiration for this work. Verdaguer had dedicated the poem to Güell’s father-in-law, the Marquis of Comillas, and actually finished writing it on this very estate. The entryway stands out especially for the Porta del Drac (Dragon’s Door), a great wrought iron sculpture symbolizing Verdaguer’s mythological dragon with bat wings, a scaled body, and a long and sinuous tongue. The dragon’s enemy was not St. George, but Hercules, because L'Atlàntida was a poem with predominantly Mediterranean allusions. For example, the tree in Verdaguer’s Hesperides Garden is not an apple tree, as in classical myth, but rather a Mediterranean orange tree: from the right-hand corner of the Porta del Drac’s doorframe, Gaudí hung a small sculpture of an orange tree with golden fruit. It is part of a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.

Casa Vicens (1885)  3  Architect: Antoni Gaudí.
c/ Carolines, 18.
Casa Vicens marks the beginning of Modernism. The peculiar Neo-Gothic construction was commissioned by tile manufacturer Manuel Vicens Montaner in 1883. Its mosaic decorations evoke Oriental styles and serve as a small preview of Gaudí’s portentous imagination. It is part of a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.

La Rotonda (1918)  5  Architect: Adolf Ruiz i Casamitjana.
Pg. de Sant Gervasi, 51.
Planned in 1902, though built later on. An epic construction, well adapted to its setting.

Other interesting buildings and landmarks: 

Casa Bellesguard (1909)  1  Architect: Antoni Gaudí.
c/ Bellesguard, 16.
Designed and built by Gaudí between 1900 and 1909, La Casa Bellesguard sits on the site of an old castle. This medieval past of its location served as an inspiration to Gaudí as he planned the new Bellesguard, whose name pays homage to the beautiful vistas of Barcelona.
While the construction has a patently Gaudí look and feel to it, it is also reminiscent of a medieval tower, with a tower and parapets. The building’s verticality is highlighted by a conical tower crowned with the four-armed cross so characteristic of Gaudí’s work. The building is made of stone and brick, splendidly decorated with mosaics and wrought iron details.

Casa Roviralta “Frare Blanc” (1913)  2  Architect: Joan Rubió.
Av. Tibidabo, 31.
A single-family home that encapsulates the air of its time period and surrounding residential area.

Col•legi de les Teresianes (1890)  4  Architect: Antoni Gaudí.
c/ Ganduxer, 85-105.
Its owner’s precarious economic situation posed no obstacle at all for the construction of this great, if austere, building.