Casa Mila, or commonly known as La Pedrera, is a wonderful apartment building, designed and mostly completed under Gaudi's hand. Rosario Segimon and Pere Mila were a wealthy couple who wanted something to outdo the Guell family. In order to do this they had to have something better than his Guell palace; a new building. The plan was once the building was finished, the couple would move into one floor and rent the rest of the building out. Since Gaudi was at his peak of talent and popularity he expected to be given the money, time, and freedom to make beautiful things. The couple chaffed at anything expensive or out of the ordinary. The high brow Catalan society circles also thought the structure was too much and called it the quarry because of its rock like facade. That name stuck, the couple fired him, and Gaudi went to work on the Sagrada Familia full time. That rock like quarry, in Catalan, is La Pedrera.
We took the sunrise tour which meant that we were the first folks to enter and had the building to ourselves for over half the time we were there.
The statue is quite nice to my eye.
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