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UNESCO World Heritage Site
http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/320/
Geographic situation: Barcelona, Santa Coloma de Cervelló. N41 24 48.2 E2 09 10.7
Designation date: 1984
Ampliation: 2005
Designation grounds: C (i), (ii) i (iv)
Description: Four buildings raised by the architect Antoni Gaudí (1852-1926), in Barcelona and surroundings have been added to the List of World Heritage Sites, under the Works of Antoni Gaudí category created in 1984, which already included the Güell Park, the Güell Palace and Milà House (Barcelona) along with the present temple. They testify the exceptionally creative contribution of Gaudí to the development of architecture and its techniques in the late XIXth and the early XXth centuries. These monuments are the expresion of a style, eclectic, but at the same time very personal, which flourished not only in this art, but also in garden design, sculpture and all the other decorative arts. The four new buildings added to the list are: the Vicens House (1993-1885), the Batlló House (1), Gaudí's work in the Nativity facade and the Holy Family (1904-1906), and the Güell Colony Crypt (1898-1905).
Designation causes
Criterion (i): The work of Antoni Gaudí represents an exceptional and outstanding creative contribution to the development of architecture and building technology in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Criterion (ii): Gaudí's work exhibits an important interchange of values closely associated with the cultural and artistic currents of his time, as represented in el Modernisme of Catalonia. It anticipated and influenced many of the forms and techniques that were relevant to the development of modern construction in the 20th century.
Criterion (iv): Gaudí's work represents a series of outstanding examples of the building typology in the architecture of the early 20th century, residential as well as public, to the development of which he made a significant and creative contribution.