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Casa Milà is one of the most famous productions of the well-known architect Antoni Gaudí in Barcelona. It is now included in the UNESCO World Heritage list and is located on Passeig de Gràcia, important arterial street in the heart of Barcelona, in the central district of Eixample.

This building was constructed for Roser Segimon de Milà, Pere Milà’s wife between 1906 and 1910 and it is also called La Pedrera, which means « the quarry » in Catalan, because of the wavy aspect of the building facade. This qualifier was originally pejorative and highlighting the organic aspect of the construction or the lack of what was considered at that time a real architectural project.

The building does not include any straight line, and the facade is conceived so that it is impossible to draw a line from the roof to the ground. Very few appreciated by the promoters, who will qualify it as « horrible », they refused to pay the wholeness of Gaudí’s wages. After the trial engaged by the architect and lost by the Milàs, this one decided to offer the recovered money to a monastery.

Casa Milà is today one of the most visited monument in Barcelona. The access to the inner courtyard is free, and it is possible to visit one of the apartments and the rooftop that you can discover on this image and which has been conceived as a vast wavy terrace opened on the city.

Hope you will enjoy !

Exif Information
Camera Model Name : Canon EOS 5D
Firmware : Firmware Version 1.1.0
Shooting Date/Time : 09/03/2008 11:46:42
Tv(Shutter Speed) : 1/320Sec.
Av(Aperture Value) : F8.0
Metering Modes : Evaluative metering
Exposure Compensation : -2/3
ISO Speed : 200
Lens : EF17-40mm f/4L USM
Focal Length : 27,0 mm
Image size : 4368 x 2912
Image Quality : RAW
Flash : Off
White Balance : Auto
AF mode : One-Shot AF
Picture Style : Landscape
Color Space : Adobe RGB
File Size : 11634 KB
Drive Mode : Continuous shooting

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