Built betwen 1900 and 1914, after Gaudí's plans, on the hill of El Carmel in the Gràcia district of Barcelona, Park Güell is even today one of the largest architectural works in south Europe, and one of the seven Works of Antoni Gaudí included among UNESCO World Heritage Sites (in 1984 and 2005). Inspired by the English garden city movement it was originally part of a commercially unsuccessful housing site, which included a large country house (Larrard House or Muntaner de Dalt House), next to a neighborhood of upper class houses called La Salut (The Health). Count Güell moved in 1906 in Larrard House, and Gaudí itself lived betwen 1906 and 1926, with his family and his father, in a house which initially was intended to be a show house (La Torre Rosa - since 1963 Gaudí House Museum). It has been converted into a municipal garden in 1922.
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