Olot. Metro: Lesseps (L3) Bus: 24
Tel: 93 219 3811
Hrs: 10:00-sunset/ anochecer
Hrs Apr-Sep: 10:00-19:45. Oct-Mar: 10:00-17:45
Admission: Museum/ Museu, 4€; free under 11's/ menos de 11 años gratuito

The wonderful Parc Güell in the Gràcia district of the city is a place to go, preferably in the sunshine, to enjoy Gaudí's multiple talents and to relax in the gardens in between visiting the sights. It's worth allotting several hours whatever age you are.
The park overlooks the city, and offers a fantasy-land, starting at the main entrance with two Disney-style houses on either side of the gate, after which you are confronted by a mosaic serpent, leading up a stairway to a "Doric temple" of 86 stone columns, originally built to house a covered market. The columns support a mosaic roof on which sits a large, circular, public area, surrounded by the most exotic park bench you have ever seen. It undulates like an uncoiled serpent and is decorated with smooth pieces of multi-coloured ceramic tiles to form a patchwork quilt effect.
Elsewhere, there are colonnades of real and stone palm trees, and the Gaudí museum where the architect himself lived from 1906 to 1926. Built by Francesc Berenguer, Gaudí's assistant, in 1904, this peach-pink house with green shutters contains furniture unmistakably designed by Gaudí, and memorabilia denoting his strong Christian faith.