Colònia Güell was founded in the late 19th century as a self-sufficient community built around a textile factory commissioned by Eusebi Güell. Workers’ housing, services and green spaces were laid out around it, forming a compact industrial settlement with its own social life. Its most striking feature is the Crypt by Gaudí, an architectural testing ground where he explored leaning columns and structural ideas that would later be developed further in the Sagrada Família. A walk through the colony reveals one of the clearest examples of industrial planning and social design in Catalonia.
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The textile factory, which specialised in corduroy and velvet, was the economic backbone of the colony until it closed down in 1973.
The Colònia Güell crypt is part of Antoni Gaudí’s works inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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