The portico of El Capricho

Gaudí put in El Capricho three doors: the principal one, orientated to the Northwest; that of service, on the South; and that of cars, in the wall North. The principal entry is a portico of four columns of carved stone. They are of trunk conical shaft and they are lightly sloping. In the capitals, a garland of flowers forms the ring; and the equine, a branch of leaves of palmetto (Chamaerops humilis), as those of the house Vicens, with the double tops, among which there lodge four figures of birds, which can be doves. The models of plaster of these capitals it made them Llorenç Matamala in Barcelona. These capitals lack abacus, and the arches rely directly on the equine. The arches are very reduced and the keys stand out of the surface. When it was constructed, Cristòfor Cascante was not managing to bear four arches, and he put a few suspenders of iron under the vault of brick, an identical solution to applied by Anton Gaudí in the waterfall of the house Vicens. Cascante wrote to Gaudí, who answered him that he should do what he believed suitably (Lluís Maria Cascante, "Mi abuelo Cristóbal Cascante Colom, private edition, 1999). On the portico there is a terrace and the tower.