Cistern in Park Güell

View of the inside of Park Güell’s cistern full of water. This was built to supply water to the park and the houses in the garden city.
Park Güell was a project for a garden city designed along the lines of the ones that already existed in England. Count Güell commissioned Gaudí to create a housing estate on one of Barcelona’s hills in the Gràcia district. He envisaged a market space underneath the square and its famous undulating bench, and designed a space with viaducts that took advantage of the relief of the land.
A prototype house was built and Gaudí lived there until he moved his home to the workshops at the Sagrada Família, while working on its construction in his later years. The urban development was a failure and not a single plot of land was sold or built on. It was finally ceded to the City of Barcelona as an urban park.