Benches in "Trencadís" style
Jaume Figueras died only shortly after Gaudí began work, and it went on for his widow, not the only one of Gaudí's clients to find themselves near-bankrupted by their architect's obsessive perfectionism. The current clan acquired Bellesguard in 1945 when Lluís Guilera Molas, a distinguished cancer specialist marginalised under the Franco regime for republican sympathies, set up a clinic here with his son Lluís Guilera Soler. Since the 1960s, it has just been the family home.