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CRITICAL
COMMENTARY
Artigas
Gardens (1905)
When Joan Artigas, owner of a textile factory, came
to know about the arrival of Gaudí to La Pobla
de Lillet, near where he was building the Catllaràs
Chalet, he invited him to plan his garden. Gaudí
accepted his offer and developed the area, leaving the
spouts of underground waters, the nature and the large
unevenness, which he used to build paths, a bridge, fountains,
staircases and a summer-house as a viewpoint in the garden.
The architect used, as in the contemporaneous Güell
Park, the stone of the area so that nature and architecture
would be in perfect harmony.
In 1939, the Spanish Civil War, forced the owners to move,
the gardens were abandoned and left completely unnoticed.
They were rediscovered in 1989 when the Reial Càtedra
Gaudí began some research and started in 1991 a
project of restoration enabling their recuperation.
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