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				COMILLAS, TOWN OF THE PICTURESQUE AND THE MODERN		Town of the Picturesque The Marquises of Comillas Sobrellano Pontificial University Capricho de Gaudí Further works Town Map
				The Capricho de Gaudí.
		The capricho de Gaudí (Villa Quijano)		Around 1883, Antonio Gaudí designed what undoubtedly still is the most characteristic monument in Comillas, the Modernist Villa Quijano or Capricho de Gaudí. It was ordered by Máximo Díaz de Quijano, an in-law of the Marquis who wanted an exotic summer villa in the oriental style. Antonio Gaudí regarded this building as an organic whole where daily activity evolves with the movement of the sun. Those places for morning activities were southfacing, while those ocuppied in the afternoons looked westward. The rooms looking northward were used only in the summer. Antonio Gaudí decorated the building luxuriously with ceramics, of which it is worth remarking the Oriental style and the continuously repeated motif of the sunflower. The most typical feature is the portico, with highly original columns on which stands the tower with an arborescent and Oriental aspect.

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