Dramatic silhouettes contrasted with the gentle curves of Gaudi’s natural constructions, which have been then mirrored within the clothes that draped and folded into volumes that defied gravity.
After which there have been flashes that delighted: A pair of equestrian boots that completed in a bunch of tassels.
The style present, nevertheless, was not celebrated by all. A bunch of some hundred residents protested the occasion for what they stated have been the inconveniences it had triggered, together with lowered parking within the space. The protest additionally included animal proper activists.
The group of protesters positioned just a few streets down the hill from the park’s outer wall could possibly be heard beating drums, blowing air horns and setting off firecrackers earlier than the present kicked off. Catalan police stated they arrested one particular person for resisting violently to their resolution to take away the protesters from a avenue to let visitors by means of.
Park Guell, pronounced “gu-ay”, was began in 1900 as a deliberate upscale residential growth designed by Gaudi, whose different works embody the still-in-progress La Sagrada Familia Basilica. However a scarcity of consumers led to it being ditched in favor of a park that ultimately handed into the palms of the Barcelona townhall.
It now receives 4.4 million guests a 12 months, principally from the US, Britain, France, Germany and Italy, with Barcelona residents solely representing 0.3 per cent of the guests, in response to the park.
