Dragon fountain in Park Güell

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. However, the urban development was a failure and not a single plot of land was sold or built on, apart from the prototype house in which Gaudí lived until he moved his home to the workshops at the Sagrada Família, while working on its construction in his later years.
All that remains of the original urban plan is the park. At the entrance, there is a fountain in the form of a dragon, decorated using the tile-shard mosaic technique called trencadís. The fountain water originally came from the cistern that was designed to supply water to the gardens and the houses. The fountain acted as a spillway when the cistern was full. It is currently connected to the mains.