Visiting Comillas: the Gate of the Birds and a special house

Hello arch lovers!

We return to this beautiful town in the north of Spain called Comillas again after having visited its streets, with so many houses from different eras and styles and of course its unique and iconic cemetery, quiet and sculptural. Here in "Visiting Comillas: many facades and a bucolic cemetery"

But we have been missing an unmissable point for those of us who enjoy architecture and that will also surprise us. Walking around those streets, at a certain moment after having traveled almost everything on a gray holiday day, we went up a street where at that moment there was no one, a total silence. And without knowing, without looking at maps or apps, we continue forward with the sole spirit of seeing what we find, and suddenly, surprise.

A structure that does not seem to fit in with the rest of the panorama, and a small informative sign tells us with an arrow to turn right, there again another sign with more information. Although first we stare at the green vegetation and the tangerines that happily hang from the trees on a stone wall. But what a wall!

A special wall that ends up being a gate with a unique design, but which in turn reminds us of other well-known places. Do you know Gaudí's Park Güell in Barcelona? It seems to be done in a similar way, and indeed we read what it says in front of it, and it is a work by Gaudí, another one, since in the previous post we already mentioned one of them.

It is called la "Puerta de los Pájaros", in English the Gate of the Birds (or also Puerta del Moro, Moro's Gate), and it is flirtatious as well as harmonious with those sinuous curved lines that seem to integrate well with everything around it without attracting attention, although paradoxically it draws our attention for that very characteristic modernist style of the famous architect of the Sagrada Familia as well. A different wall made with small pieces and with various openings, one large, the other medium for people and also has a curious hole (I imagine for the birds to play around). And through them if we look as if it were a peephole a door we discovered a special house.

I say that it is a special house because it is truly different from others, not only in style but in something else... doesn't it seem set in an Edgar Allan Poe novel? It's my opinion and the first thing that came to my mind when I saw it, and especially when I turned around on the other side (it must be a private house because it's closed). And straight ahead on the main part of the street, yes, we look up towards the big windows and we see some crow figurines, or something like that. The crows and that decoration, I deduce that something modernist also gives it an almost cinematic or mystery novel touch.

Even the surrounding vegetation seems to accompany it, except for the tangerine trees that we have seen on the side that give it a special joy, near that Gate of the Birds that we have liked so much.

And we also turn our heads towards the other side of the street, and there the views, almost the same ones that should be seen from that curious balcony of the house, a great panoramic view of the Cantabrian Sea and the beach of that town of Comillas that so much It has surprised us, almost at every corner.