The Villa Quijano, popularly known as El Capricho, is a modernist building located in the Cantabrian town of Comillas.

It was designed by Antoni Gaudí and built between 1883 and 1885 under the direction of Cristóbal Cascante, assistant to the architect from Reus, and commissioned by the indiano Máximo Díaz de Quijano. It is one of the few works that Gaudí designed outside Catalonia.

This work belongs to Gaudí's orientalist period (1883-1888), a period in which the architect produced a series of works with a markedly oriental taste, inspired by the art of the Near and Far East (India, Persia, Japan), as well as by Hispanic Islamic art, mainly Mudejar and Nasrid. Gaudí made extensive use of ceramic tile decoration, as well as mitral arches, exposed-brick brackets and temple or dome-shaped finials.

The building has an elongated U-shaped ground plan, with a surface area of 720 m² and a ground plan measuring 15 x 36 metres. It has a semi-basement, a main floor and an attic, connected by two spiral staircases, and a cylindrical tower in the form of a Persian minaret, covered entirely with ceramic tiles.

Various materials were used in its construction, such as stone, brick, tile, iron and tile, combined in different shades, which gives a great chromatic richness to the ensemble.

The decoration of the house was carried out with all kinds of ornamental luxuries and the best materials such as stained glass, ceramics and carved wood. Most of the decorative motifs are geometric and vegetal in nature, such as flowers and leaves, but there are also animal motifs, mainly ornithological.