Historical landmark
Casa Lleó Morera
Pg. de Gràcia, 35, Eixample, 08007 Barcelona
Modernist mansion with carved floral balconies, mosaics and a corner turret on a landmark Eixample avenue.
This guide to Casa Lleó Morera in Barcelona centers on the sculpted stone faces a widow named Francesca Morera commissioned from Eusebi Arnau for her son's Modernist showpiece on Passeig de Gràcia, and on the day in 1943 when a luxury brand had them torn off the facade. You'll hear how the building's caretaker responded rather than let the broken carvings go to the rubbish cart. It traces the fate of those stone heads onward to an admirer with a taste for the strange and beautiful.
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