Casa Vicens (Gaudi's first house). Direct Entry

Visit: Casa Vicens, Carrer de les Carolines, 20-26, 08012 Barcelona Spain

Casa Vicens, the first house Gaudi, and the first important work of the architect, offers the visitor one of the key pieces of the career of Antoni Gaudí's work that marked his point starting and architectural jewel that was declared World Heritage by UNESCO in 2005.

Built between 1883 and 1885 by order of Don Manuel Vicens, the Casa Vicens is an early Modernist masterpieces, anticipating the later work of Gaudi and a living example of aesthetic renewal of the air we breathe at the nineteenth century Europe.

Originally, it was planned as a summer house with garden, in which geometric shapes and rich decoration, inspired by vegetation in the environment, are present both outside the home and the different interiors.