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Crack This Case! Searching out Antoni Gaudi
Help Inspector Monica find the Spanish architect's works!
14 October 1999. Filed yesterday: a report by Inspector Monica from Spain, seeking your assistance in solving several mysteries. Inspector M writes that the Trekkers crossed the Strait of Gibraltar successfully and are continuing with their voyage through Europe en route to Egypt. While in Barcelona, she stumbled across a verrryyy interrresting clue in this regional capital of Catalunya province, northern Spain.
It was a tiny clue. Facts: small circle, orange glazed tile, flowery black interior. Our fearless inspector searched the city of 1.5 million for the missing owner of this item. Yesterday, M announced success in locating the rightful home: a park bench, considered the largest in the world at 499 ft (152m). Location: the Gran Plaça Circular, in Parc Guell, north of downtown. Built by: Josep Jujol, in collaboration with Antoni Gaudi, Barcelona's most famous architect.
While in Barcelona, Inspector Monica found many other clues. WANTED: Your help in finding where these clues fit to Gaudí's sites around Barcelona!! For each of the following sites designed by Gaudi, see if you can guess what it is you're looking at. Ready... Set... Go!
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Parc Guell
Facts: Commissioned as a garden estate on 50 acres.
Built 1910-1914 but abandoned as a commercial flop.
Highlights: 84 crooked pillars in the Sala Hipostila.
Gaudi lived in gingerbread house 1906-1926.
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La Perdrera (Casa Milà), the "Stone Quarry"
Facts:Built 1905-1910 as apartment and office complex.
Declared UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Highlights:No straight walls anywhere in the apartment.
Espantabruixes (witch-scarers) are weird chimneys, air ducts.
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Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Familia
Facts: Begun in 1882.
Gaudi worked from 1909-1926 on this church.
Construction still in progress.
Highlights: Eighteen bell towers planned, the tallest (170m) for Christ.
Two intricately-designed facades-- "Nativity" and "Passion".
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FOUND: the great architectural contributions of Antoni Gaudí, whose untimely death (he was run over by a tram) in 1926 put an end to his work.
Monica
p.s. - Please e-mail me at ...worldtrekker@internettreks.org
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