{"id":1170,"date":"2024-04-26T17:17:23","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T17:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c24\/?p=1170"},"modified":"2024-04-26T19:52:12","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T19:52:12","slug":"gaudis-whim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c24\/2024\/04\/26\/gaudis-whim\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaud\u00ed’s Whim"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Tonight we are in Comillas. According to the sign at the beginning of town, it is “one of the most beautiful towns in Spain”. We are charmed by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Antoni Gaud\u00ed, of Barcelona cathedral fame, designed a house for a rich lawyer here. It is called El Capricho de Gaud\u00ed,<\/em> which means “Guad\u00ed’s Whim.” We were able to tour it this afternoon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guad\u00ed was still young when he created this estate. It’s whimsical but not nearly as much as his cathedral in Barcelona that he did when he was older.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are some photos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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They said it wasn’t as large as many estates because the lawyer was a bachelor.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The tower<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The main entrance<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Gaud\u00ed designed a lot of the furniture as well<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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They actually invited us to sit on the furniture. We were amazed how comfortable it was.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The ceiling<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A couple more stories about our visit: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Admission was \u20ac10. However, they said if we were over 65 years old it was \u20ac5. We were a little disappointed they didn’t ask for our IDs when they charged us \u20ac5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The stairs to go between floors were tiny<\/em> spiral staircases with thin wedge steps. It had been raining and the bottom of our shoes were still slightly wet. As we were going down one of them I slipped and slid down a few steps. Yikes. It was scary. Luckily I caught myself. Nothing broken except my pride. A little sore in the knee and little finger. I’m pretty sure nothing serious. It did take me a while to recover from the shock of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tonight we are in Comillas. According to the sign at the beginning of town, it is “one of the most beautiful towns in Spain”. We are charmed by it. Antoni Gaud\u00ed, of Barcelona cathedral fame, designed a house for a rich lawyer here. It is called El Capricho de Gaud\u00ed, which means “Guad\u00ed’s Whim.” We … Continue reading “Gaud\u00ed’s Whim”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1170"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1187,"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions\/1187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}