In the city of Llinars del Valles, 40 km. from Barcelona, stood a small house with a circular watch tower, facades of masonry and brick, balconies adorned with forged iron, and a splendid door of forged iron as well, all attributed to Architect Antonio Gaudi. The house was the summer home of Sr. Damia Mateu and was known throughout town as "La Miranda."

There is a photo of the Miranda from 1939 which has been conserved and in which one sees the Miranda as one of the only houses to survive the Spanish Civil War. But, in the 1960's, due to unparalleled real-estate speculation, this magnificent house was destroyed, making way for a new apartment block. The only parts of the house which avoided dumpyard were the iron gates of the garden entrance which currently stand in Park Guell, and a few pieces of the iron grates which went along with the gate.

There is no existing document which verifies that this work is in fact the work of Gaudi, but the builder who participated in the said work, Josep Font i Serra, always explained to his contemporaries how he would go to the cable car station in 1906 to pick up "Don Antonio" (Gaudi), so that he could go check on the evolution of his works.