Tiles, Casa Batllo, Barcelona, Spain

Blue and white ceramic tiles and crackle stucco, decorating the wall of the main entrance hall, in the Casa Batllo, originally built in 1877 by Emilio Sala Cortes and totally remodelled 1904-6 by Antoni Gaudi, 1852-1926, in catalan Modernisme and art nouveau style, for Josep Batllo y Casanovas, a textile industrialist, on the Passeig de Gracia in the Illa de la Discordia district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The building is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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