El Capricho of Gaudí and Comillas guided tour

Enjoy a relaxed afternoon visiting Comillas, a town that encompasses all of the elements necessary to satify your intersts in culture, achitecture and landscape.

Comillas is surprisingly a cradle and model of the Catalonia modernism. You will visit there the mansion known as El Capricho de Gaudí or Villa Quijano (1885). This building is considered to be one of the first works of relevance of the famous Catalan architect. In fact, fad marks the beginning of the modernist movement and it is one of the three works made by Gaudí outside Catalonia. Afterwards, you will visit the Sobrellano Palace (1888), a grandiose Gothic building designed by the Catalan architect Joan Martorell who built it commissioned by the first Marquis of Comillas, Antonio López y López.

Before leaving, you will make a quick visit with the vehicle through the town to see the magnificent sculpture of the Ángel Exterminador on the ruins of an old monastery and the Pontifical University (old Seminary at Comillas).