Barcelona: a city of funny things (Part II)

After taking a break by having lunch (Rachel had pasta with mushrooms and I had this potato pasta thing which, though there wasn't much, was quite good and quite filling), we went to see the other Gaudi houses. We had originally planned to go elsewhere but seeing how close it was to us, we decided to go there instead. The first one we went to was the casa batlló or the house of bones. This house is base a lot on water as you shall see later.

The exterior

The staircase near the front. The railing resembles the spine of a fish.

When we came up those stairs... The ceiling resembles fish scales

A mushroom shaped fireplace in the same room. You see the thing
Rachel is holding up to her ear? We were both very attached to it.

One of the courtyards in the house. Notice how the color is darker on top, it is t
o give the impression that you are underwater when you are looking up.
In front of the glass where it makes it seem like there's water behind you

A catenary arch is a shaped formed by hanging a weight on a chain. It does not need
flying buttresses and can be in nature (such as the bones of a whale).

A room which I thought was very interesting (not that the others weren't)

A close up

The roofBack of a dragon? You see those things on the right? They are chimneys.
A Gaudi contemporaryA Gaudi house which we could only look at the exterior