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Casa Batlló is celebrating this historic restoration by inviting people to visit the façade with a free audio that will help them to understand the restoration works. 

From 23 May, all those who wish can visit Casa Batlló to request free access to this audio. Visitors, with their own mobile, will then be able to access a website and hear all about the changes made to the façade, while standing in front of it.

 

The façade was restored for the first time in 2001, a few years before being declared a UNESCO World Heritage site. The restoration that was carried out between January to May 2019 has been much more thorough and, as stated by Xavier Villanueva, Project Supervisor at Casa Batlló, “we have gone above and beyond, we have returned to the origin”. This time, professionals from 7 different fields have worked on the façade to clean it, restore it and apply different conservation techniques, a particularly complicated process given that it is formed by 5 different materials (stone, iron, ceramic, glass and wood), each requiring a specific treatment.

How the facade was restored

In the following video you can see some of the restoration works that have been carried out in recent months.

Watch video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8o1RXYfiKcE

A free audio, to explain the restoration


To celebrate this historic milestone, the organisation has prepared a free audio to enable people to visit the façade and discover the history of its restoration, along with the myths and legends surrounding it. From 23 May, all those who wish can visit Casa Batlló to request free access to this audio. Visitors, with their own mobile, will then be able to access a website and hear all about the changes made to the façade, while standing in front of it.

In the past few months, Casa Batlló has offered guided tours led by Xavier Villanueva, Joan Olona and Amilcar Vargas, for experts in history, architecture, restoration, archaeology and heritage management, in order to provide information on the restoration process and establish a dialogue between different fields of knowledge. In one of the interviews conducted during one of these special visits, Alicia Castillo, President of ICOMOS Spain, declared that “the restoration of Casa Batlló is exemplary and inspiring for those of us who work in World Heritage conservation”.