Casa de les Punxes

About this audio guide

This guide to Casa de les Punxes in Barcelona follows architect Josep Puig i Cadafalch's 1901 commission to build three unmarried sisters, Angela, Josefa and Rosa Terradas, one fused fairytale castle on their family's triangular plot rather than three separate houses. You'll hear how he gave each sister her own entrance and wing within the six-towered building Barcelona nicknamed the House of Spikes, and what the guide finds waiting in the ceramic tilework around back on Josefa's section. It points you toward a detail carved into the stone beneath that tilework too, one Puig i Cadafalch left of himself. Look for the seams in the brick where one sister's section ends and the next begins.