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| [[Image:CasaBatllo 0170.JPG|250px|thumb|The Casa Batlló in Barcelona]]
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| [[Image:Jfader batto roof.jpg|thumb|250px|The arched roof and complex chimney detailing]]
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'''Casa Batlló''' is a building restored by [[Antoni Gaudí]] and [[Josep Maria Jujol]], built in the year 1877 and remodelled in the years [[1905]]–[[1907]]; located at 43, Passeig de Gràcia (''passeig'' is [[Catalan language|Catalan]] for promenade or [[avenue]]), part of the [[Illa de la Discòrdia]] in the ''[[Eixample]]'' district of [[Barcelona]], [[Catalonia]].

The local name for the building is ''Casa dels ossos'' (House of Bones), and indeed it does have a [[viscera]]l, [[skeleton|skeletal]] organic quality. It was originally designed for a [[middle-class]] family and situated in a prosperous district of Barcelona.

[[Image:Casa Batlló.jpg|250px|left|thumb|The Casa Batlló in Barcelona]]

The building looks very remarkable — like everything Gaudí designed, only identifiable as [[Modernisme]] or [[Art Nouveau]] in the broadest sense. The ground floor, in particular, is rather astonishing with tracery, irregular oval windows and flowing sculpted stone work.
[[Image:Casa batllo chimney.jpg|250px|left|thumb| Casa Batlló chimney in Barcelona]]


It seems that the goal of the designer was to avoid straight lines completely. Much of the [[façade]] is decorated with a [[mosaic]] made of broken ceramic tiles ([[trencadís]]) that starts in shades of golden orange moving into greenish blues. The roof is [[arch]]ed and was likened to the back of a [[European dragon|dragon]] or [[dinosaur]]. A common theory about the building is that the rounded feature to the left of centre, terminating at the top in a turret and cross, represents the sword of [[Saint George]] (patron saint of [[Catalonia]]), which has been plunged into the back of the dragon.

'''Pop Culture'''

The Casa Batlló appeared in [[Pascualina]] 2006 edition, in honour to Antoni Gaudi.

==External links==
*[http://www.casabatllo.cat The official website of La Casa Batlló]
*[http://miejsca.org/2007/casa-batllo-barcelona-antonio-gaudi/ Photographs of the inside of La Casa Batlló]
*[http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Casa_Batllo.html Casa Batlló on GreatBuildings.com]
*[http://www.barcelona-tourist-guide.com/albums-en/gaudi-casa-batllo/index.html Casa Batlló pictures]
*[http://www.op.net/~jmeltzer/Gaudi/batllo.html Casa Batlló description]
*gaudi designer[http://www.gaudidesigner.com/uk/casa-batllo.html]

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[[Category:Buildings and structures in Barcelona]]
[[Category:Modernisme in Barcelona]]
[[Category:Antoni Gaudí buildings]]
[[Category:1907 architecture]]
[[Category:World Heritage Sites in Spain]]
[[Category:Visitor attractions in Barcelona]]

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