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Casa Batllo is another wonderful building designed by Antoni Gaudi in 1905-1907..It looks very remarkable -like everything Gaudi designed, only identifiable as Modernisme or Art Nouveau in the broadest sense..The ground floor, in particular ,is rather astonishing with tracery,irregular oval windows and flowing sculpted stone work...it seems that the goal of the designer was to avoid straight lines completely...Much of the façade is decorated with mosic made of broken ceramic tiles(named "trencadis")that starts in shades of golden moving into greenish blues...