Attic door and tower, El Capricho de Gaudi, Comillas
Door leading from the roof to the attic, and on the left, the tower covered in sunflower ceramic tiles, at El Capricho de Gaudi, or Villa Quijano, a Modernist villa designed by Antoni Gaudi, 1852-1926, and built 1883-85 under his assistant Cristobal Cascante, in Comillas, Cantabria, Spain. The villa was commissioned by Maximo Diaz de Quijano as a summer house. It is from Gaudi's orientalist period, with azulejos tiles and domes. The building has housed a museum since 2009. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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