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Tower of la Creu

Sant Joan Despí, Baix Llobregat, Barcelona

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Tower of la Creu

Monument · Sant Joan Despí, Baix Llobregat, Barcelona

Modernist tower by Josep Maria Jujol, an emblematic work of Sant Joan Despí, also known as Torre dels Ous, Casa dels Ous or Torre Parellada, and originally called Torre Gibert. It was built between 1913 and 1916 by the architect Josep Maria Jujol i Gibert, the most prominent of Gaudí's collaborators, commissioned by his aunt Josefa Romeu i Grau de Gibert as a summer house. The building, a two-family house, is made up of five cylindrical bodies of different diameter and height, crowned by domes of various shapes and clad in ceramic mosaic, with the cross that gives it its name topping the whole. Surrounded by a garden with a wrought-iron fence, it was renovated in 1966 and between 2006 and 2008, when it became the seat of the Baix Llobregat delegation of the Association of Architects of Catalonia.

Photo: Gab01 (Public domain)

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