Is Gaudí’s park a blot on Barcelona’s landscape because it was funded by the slave trade? | Rowan Moore
I Only recently, during a trip to Barcelona, did I learn that a large part of the funding for Antoni Gaudí's glorious buildings came from Cuban slavery, where Catalan merchants were engaged until the late 1880s. is. His greatest patron, Eusebi Güell, owed much of his wealth to a slave-based fortune built up by his […]