El Capricho, Comillas

El Capricho in Comillas, on Spain's green northern coast in Cantabria, a summer villa built between 1883 and 1885 for Máximo Díaz de Quijano. Gaudí drew it from Barcelona and left the site work to his colleague Cristóbal Cascante. The detail to find is the band of ceramic tiles, yellow sunflowers alternating with green leaves, which runs around the brick walls and wraps the slim tower above the entrance porch. It makes an easy add-on to a drive along the Cantabrian coast.