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La Pedrera (Casa Milà)

Casa Milà, known as La Pedrera, is at Passeig de Gràcia 92, in the Eixample. Antoni Gaudí designed it for the businessman Pere Milà and his wife Rosario Segimon, and it was built between 1906 and 1912. The building is organised on six floors around two inner courtyards, one circular and one oval, plus a basement, an attic and a roof terrace. On the roof there are about thirty chimneys, ventilation towers and stairwell exits with sculptural forms. The attic, with catenary arches that allow an open space without load-bearing columns, houses the Espai Gaudí, an exhibition on the life and architecture of its creator. Since 2013 it has belonged to the Fundació Catalunya La Pedrera, which manages the building. It is part of the 1984 UNESCO listing of Gaudí's works.

Things to do at La Pedrera (Casa Milà): 3 missions

• Explore the attic and the Espai GaudíIn the attic, look at the catenary arches that leave the space open without load-bearing columns and walk through the exhibition on Gaudí's life and work.
• Find the chimneys on the roof terraceGo up to the roof terrace and look at the chimneys, the ventilation towers and the stairwell exits, all with sculptural forms; note how many different shapes you can tell apart.
• Compare the two inner courtyardsLook at the building's two inner courtyards, one circular and one oval, and notice how they organise the floors around them.

Near La Pedrera (Casa Milà)

Source: Web oficial - La Pedrera