Gaudi - The Nemesis of Spanish Architecture

You simply cannot talk about Spanish architecture orToday there are many tours of Barcelona that will
even Spain for that matter without the nametake you around some of his most prominent
Antonio Gaudi coming up somewhere. As the mostbuildings and seeing them up close and with a guide is
successful and most famous Spanish architect he lefta great way to see the master's work. You can
behind a legacy that not only transformed the city ofhowever, see a lot of Gaudi without a guided tour.
Barcelona, nut helped to define a culture and theThe Sagrada Familia stands like a shrine in the city
spirit of Barcelona.and its completion is still not fixed as thousands of
With his work scattered all over Barcelona, you canartists, engineers and architects work round the clock
hardly turn your had without being reminded of histo build Gaudi's most magnificent masterpiece.
work. The way in which he inspired both his peersWhether its his residential buildings, his landscape
and his followers is still evident in the new buildings alldesigns or even his grand cathedral, Antonia Gaudi
around Spain. He's been called a genius by artists likecaptured the spirit of a city and helped to shape and
Salvadoir Dali and architect Santiago Calatravadefine its future. He is the symbol of an architect
considers him the most important architect of ourwith vision and someone who managed to fuse
time.culture, art and architecture into a beautiful fusion.