Casa Amatller
A chocolate baron's mansion frozen at 1900 — down to a carved rat clutching a camera on the facade.
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Puig i Cadafalch remade an 1875 building for chocolatier Antoni Amatller; the family owned it until 1960, so the 1900 interior survives intact — real rooms, not a restoration — on the same block as Gaudí's Casa Batlló.
What to look for
- On the main facade, the sculpted rat with a camera — one of its sculpture compositions.
- Inside, the stair court lit through a stained-glass ceiling, and Antoni Amatller's preserved bedroom.
- From the sidewalk, three clashing Modernisme facades in a row — the Illa de la Discòrdia, with Casa Batlló and Casa Lleó-Morera.
Passeig de Gràcia 41; a house museum, café and the Amatller Institute for Hispanic Art — the interior is seen by scheduled tour.
Casa Amatller is one of 39 sights worth the detour in Barcelona, all bundled offline in Voyage GO — download the Barcelona pack and it sits on your map with no signal, filling your travel passport the moment you walk past.
More to see in Barcelona
- Sagrada FamíliaGaudí is buried beneath a church begun in 1882 and still unfinished — one that in 2025 became the world's tallest.
- Camp NouThe bowl that once crammed 120,000 people in to watch Barça — European football's biggest room.
- Park GüellGaudí's failed luxury subdivision — 2 of 60 planned homes ever built — that Barcelona inherited as a mosaic playground.
- Casa Milà (La Pedrera)Gaudí's last private house looks like a wind-carved sea cliff parked on a city corner.
- Casa BatllóGaudí reskinned a townhouse into a slain dragon, down to columns shaped like leg bones.
- Barcelona CathedralThirteen white geese live in the cloister — one for each year Saint Eulalia was alive before Rome killed her.