The tower
Minaret-like.
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El Capricho is a villa in the town of Comillas in Cantabria, northern Spain, designed by Antoni Gaudí, less than a kilometre from the town centre in a straight line. It was built between 1883 and 1885 as a summer home for Máximo Díaz de Quijano, who died a year before it was finished. Gaudí designed only a few buildings outside Catalonia, and this one belongs to his early orientalist period, showing the foundations on which Catalan Modernisme was built. It was declared a National Monument in 1969. Its red-brick walls are banded with green tiles decorated with sunflowers, and a slender minaret-like tower topped by a small cupola rises from it, set in green gardens. Inside are rooms with large wooden windows and decorated wooden ceilings. It is now a museum you can tour inside, close to the Palacio de Sobrellano and Comillas' other sights. Mornings are quieter before the groups, and hours may change in winter.
Minaret-like.
On the walls.
Wooden ceilings.
Comillas, Cantabria, Spain
Yes, it is paid.
Palacio de Sobrellano.