The dragon-shaped sculpture at the entrance of Park Güell is called El Drac.
The colorful figure stands on the monumental Dragon Stairway, where it forms part of a fountain system. It is covered in trencadís, a mosaic technique made from irregular fragments of ceramic tile, and is one of Barcelona’s best-known symbols.
El Drac is often described as a dragon, but the sculpture’s animal form is also commonly identified as a salamander. That distinction does not make the stored answer wrong: El Drac is the widely accepted Catalan name associated with the monument. The stairway also includes other symbolic features, including a Catalan coat of arms.
Antoni Gaudí designed Park Güell for his patron Eusebi Güell as a planned garden-city development between 1900 and 1914. The project was not commercially successful, but its entrance, mosaic dragon, terraces and colonnades became landmarks of Gaudí’s architectural style.