Architecture & design · Gracia
Casa Vicens
Casa Vicens is a house in Barcelona's Gracia district built between 1883 and 1885 as a summer residence for Manel Vicens i Montaner. It was Antoni Gaudi's first substantial independent commission, and opened to the public as a museum in 2017.
Why it matters
Casa Vicens is where Gaudi's later work becomes legible in outline: the tile patterning, the ironwork and the treatment of the corner are already there, in a building he designed before he had a reputation to defend.
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Good for
- Architecture & design — The earliest of Gaudi's major houses, and the one that shows most plainly what he took from Islamic and Catalan tile traditions.
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Sources & verification
- coordinates.latitude
- Barcelona municipal facilities open data (Primary) — checked 2026-09-07
- Read from an authoritative geospatial publisher; see the coordinate's own status and role.
- coordinates.longitude
- Barcelona municipal facilities open data (Primary) — checked 2026-09-07
- officialWebsite
- Casa Vicens - official site (Primary) — checked 2026-09-07
- URL retrieved and confirmed to belong to the named operator.
- address.formatted
- Casa Vicens - official site (Primary) — checked 2026-09-07
Not verified: opening hours, admission prices and access rules. These change frequently and we have not checked them, so this page does not state them. Check the official website before travelling.
Wikidata records this address as Carrer de les Carolines 18-24. The venue's own site gives 20-26, and the official value has been used. Two independent official sources place the building within 32 m of each other.
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