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The history of the Sagrada Familia begins with the vision of one man, Josep María Bocabella y Verdaguer, a printer and bookseller, who in 1881 conceived the idea of building a Catholic church dedicated to the Holy Family, La Sagrada Família.
The young architect Antoni Gaudí soon joined him and the project took on the dimension and excessiveness that we know today.

The completed Basilica of the Sagrada Família will be a basilica with no less than five naves, three facades, and eighteen towers, the tallest of which, in the center, will be 172. 5 metres high, symbolizing Jesus Christ! The highest tower in Barcelona in… In a few years!

When the Sagrada Família will be finished?

Theoretically, la Sagrada Família should be finished in 2026, the expected date for the completion of the most important works and the centenary of the death of its creator Antoni Gaudí.

But there have been many obstacles and delays since the first stone was laid in 1882. Between theory and practice, this construction has had many mishaps.

The absolute tragedy of Gaudí’s death in 1926, when he was hit by a tram, comes to mind. His disciple Domènec Sugranyes became the third in a long line of architects in charge of the project.

Another tragedy occurred in 1936 when the Sagrada Família was sacked during the Spanish Civil War. Original plans were burnt, models were smashed. Despite this, the construction will continue with the few documents that survived this event.

2026, a date for the end of the construction site, called into question because of the Covid-19 pandemic?

Barcelona’s most emblematic construction site continued until the Covid-19 pandemic. The closure of the temple to visitors in 2020 meant an immediate lack of funding. The work on an expiatory temple is financed exclusively through alms (money taken from the price of the entrance ticket and alms given by visitors).

In 2021, the Sagrada Família has lost 81 million in revenue compared to 2019…

At the last count and according to the general director of the Construction Council, Xavier Martínez, the completion of the work in 2026 is once again moving away…

Unless your good heart makes the difference…

What will the tallest tower of the basilica look like once it is erected, synonymous with the end of the work?

The Tower of Jesus Christ, 172.5 meters high. The last element of the work will be topped by a cross with four bell-shaped arms and covered with glazed ceramic and glass. This is a final tribute to Gaudí with one of the most typical forms of his famous crosses.

Video: The Tower of Jesus Christ in 2026 – animation-

Barcelona 2023 – Pictures La Sagrada Familia church

Virtual tour Antoni Gaudi’s ‘Templo Expiatorio de la Sagrada Familia’ in the heart of Barcelona. The Sagrada Familia is famous for the unique design and also famous for being unfinished. Construction started in 1882 and it is hoped that it will be completed in 2026.

The construction of this incredible temple started in 1882, when Gaudi agreed to take over a project for a new and magnificent church in Barcelona. It is still not finished. In 2013 about 65% of the temple has been completed. It is expected that the church will be finally finished in 2026, which will be 100 years after Gaudi died in 1926.

The present chief architect is Jordi Faulí, who leads a team of 40 construction workers. He is the ninth generation of architects to lead the building work and it is expected that Faulí will be the final architect, when this magnificent temple is finally finished 144 years after the building work started.

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How Gaudi´s Sagrada Familia church in Barcelona will look when finished.

The interior of La Sagrada Familia church is finished except some details. It was consecrated by Pope Benedict in November 2010. It is magnificent to see the inside, but the queues to get in are very long so we recommend booking tickets in advance.

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La Sagrada Familia has become a symbol of the city and is Barcelona’s most popular and visited attraction. Where did Gaudi live?

La Sagrada Familia in 2011. In 2013 it was 65% finished.

Interior La Sagrada Familia

La Sagrada Familia altar

Passion facade and Sagrada Familia park

How will the finished Sagrada Familia basilica look? It will have a total of 18 towers. 12 of these towers will be on three facades, the Nativity Facade, the Passion facade and the Glory facade. Each will have 4 towers. An additional four towers will represent the 4 evangelists. They will surround the central and largest middle tower, which will be dedicated to Jesus Christ and will be 170m/558ft high. The final tower dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary will be over the apse. The main entrance will be to left of this photo and an entire city block might be demolished to create more space around the temple.

Glory Facade of the Sagrada Familia church when finished. This will be the main entrance of the church and the apartment block in front will be demolished.

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Stained glass windows Sagrada Familia

Nativity facade of Sagrada Familia by night

Sagrada Familia during Merce 2012 light show. (This is not a recurring event) Pictures Merce Sagrada Familia light show

Snow on Sagrada Familia during a rare Barcelona snow storm March 2010

Antoni Gaudi was deeply religious, but he did not worry about how long it would take to finish building La Sagrada Familia. ‘My boss is not in a hurry, ‘ he famously once said.

Nativity facade. This was completed in Gaudi’s lifetime before his sudden and tragic death in 1926. Gaudi died when he was hit by a tram while walking to the Sagrada Familia from his house in Park Guell.

The nativity facade of the Sagrada Familia has incredible detail with intricate scupltures and carvings.

Sagrada Familia means the ‘Holy Family’ which is the theme of nativity facade.

The ‘Passion Facade” building started in 1954. The sculptures depicting the crucified Jesus Christ were added in 1987. When they were unveiled, the more basic and abstract style of the figures sparked a storm of debate, because the style was so very different from Gaudí’s. Gaudi is most famous for his avoidance of straight lines preferring the curved lines of nature, while the sculptures on the ‘Passion facade’ are more linear and far from Gaudi’s style. However they are very impressive and were created by famous Catalan sculptor and artist Josep Maria Subirachs i Sitjar.

Views towards Montjuic hill from the towers of the passion facade.

View towards Torre Agbar near Plaça Glories. Photos Torre Agbar

Sagrada Familia park – El Parc de la Sagrada Família

Statue of Sant Jordi (Saint George) on Sagrada Familia passion facade. About Sant Jordi

La Sagrada Familia will be finished in 2026.

Reflection of Sagrada Familia in lake in front of Nativity facade

Nativity facade lit up in red on pink ribbon day

Pope Benedict XVI consegrated La Sagrada Familia basilica on 7 Nov 2010.

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Bienvenidos a Barcelona!
Barcelona en familia es un placer absoluto y unas vacaciones inolvidables para todos. La ciudad ofrece tantas cosas que ver y hacer que parece haber infinitas opciones.

Durante esta ruta vamos a, entre otras cosas, ir a la playa, al zoológico, visitar parques infantiles y parques de atracciones. Además de disfrutar de la arquitectura de forma divertida, incluso para los mas pequeños. Las obras de Gaudí parecen hechas para niños con sus colores llamativos y sus formas infinitamente imaginativas. Los animales del zoológico y el acuario nos van a entretener mucho, y aparte vamos a ver criaturas que nunca hemos visto antes! Y que sería una visita a Barcelona sin visitar el hogar de su famoso equipo de futbol? En el museo del club azulgrana vamos a conocer a los jugadores de la historia del Barca, y luego vamos a visitar el Camp Nou, donde se juegan los mejores partidos del mundo.

Tenemos planificada una ruta en teleférico, con magnificas vistas de la costa y la ciudad. hablando de vistas; desde el parque de atracciones de Tibidabo también vamos a tener vistas preciosas mientras que montamos en la montaña rusa y en la noria! En el Museo de Ideas e Inventos vamos a ver inventos tan listos y a la vez tan sencillos que nos van a sorprender. Los niños se van a divertir mucho caminando sobre agua, y en los barquitos de motor del Bubble Park. A toda la familia le va a encantar los talleres y la yincana del Poble Espanyol. No nos vamos a perder la belleza del espectáculo de la Fuente Mágica, y además va a haber tiempo para aprender algo de la historia de la península Ibérica en el museo de Arqueología de Catalunya. Como veis, tenemos planificado un montón de diversión para toda la familia, así que vámonos! A disfrutar de Barcelona en familia!

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Bienvenidos a Barcelona!
Barcelona en familia es un placer absoluto y unas vacaciones inolvidables para todos. La ciudad ofrece tantas cosas que ver y hacer que parece haber infinitas opciones.

Durante esta ruta vamos a, entre otras cosas, ir a la playa, al zoológico, visitar parques infantiles y parques de atracciones. Además de disfrutar de la arquitectura de forma divertida, incluso para los mas pequeños. Las obras de Gaudí parecen hechas para niños con sus colores llamativos y sus formas infinitamente imaginativas. Los animales del zoológico y el acuario nos van a entretener mucho, y aparte vamos a ver criaturas que nunca hemos visto antes! Y que sería una visita a Barcelona sin visitar el hogar de su famoso equipo de futbol? En el museo del club azulgrana vamos a conocer a los jugadores de la historia del Barca, y luego vamos a visitar el Camp Nou, donde se juegan los mejores partidos del mundo.

Tenemos planificada una ruta en teleférico, con magnificas vistas de la costa y la ciudad. hablando de vistas; desde el parque de atracciones de Tibidabo también vamos a tener vistas preciosas mientras que montamos en la montaña rusa y en la noria! En el Museo de Ideas e Inventos vamos a ver inventos tan listos y a la vez tan sencillos que nos van a sorprender. Los niños se van a divertir mucho caminando sobre agua, y en los barquitos de motor del Bubble Park. A toda la familia le va a encantar los talleres y la yincana del Poble Espanyol. No nos vamos a perder la belleza del espectáculo de la Fuente Mágica, y además va a haber tiempo para aprender algo de la historia de la península Ibérica en el museo de Arqueología de Catalunya. Como veis, tenemos planificado un montón de diversión para toda la familia, así que vámonos! A disfrutar de Barcelona en familia!

Photo Parc Güell (Barcelona) – 58 by Angela Llop is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

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Coordinates: 41°24′13″ N sh. 2°10′28″ E / 41.403611° N sh. 2.174444° E ^(G) 41.403611, 2.174444

Sagrada Familia at night (as of March 2006)

Expiatory Cathedral of the Holy Family , Sagrada Familia (cat. Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família) is located north of the Old City of Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain) in the Eixample area (cat. Eixample). The construction of the temple, begun in 1883, has not yet been completed.

The design of the cathedral was originally designed by the architect Francisco del Villar (Cat. Francisco de Paula del Villar y Lozano), who left the work in 1884 and was replaced by Antoni Gaudi, who significantly changed the original project. According to the decision of the initiators of the construction of the temple, the financing of the work should be carried out exclusively at the expense of donations from the parishioners, which is one of the reasons for such a long construction.

1 Construction history: 1882-1926
2 Construction history since 1926
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Construction history: 1882-1926

In 1882, the city of Barcelona began building a church dedicated to the Sagrada Familia, the Sagrada Familia. A free site was allocated for the new temple, which at that time was a few kilometers from the city. The original design of the temple belongs to the architect Francesco del Villar. Del Villar planned to build a neo-Gothic church, but managed to build only a crypt under the apse. At 189Antonio Gaudi became the chief architect of the building in 1999. The construction of the Sagrada Familia continued throughout the subsequent years of Gaudí’s life. When asked about the unusually long duration of the work, he replied: “My client is in no hurry.” From the very beginning, Gaudí decided not to follow the path of conventional neo-Gothic style architecture. The church was to be Gothic only in spirit and in basic forms, having a plan in the form of a “Latin cross”, but in all other respects the architect intended to use his own language of visual imagery. As the construction progressed, the cathedral acquired its unusual look for a Catholic church: spindly towers, shaped like sand castles, roof elements made in the style of cubism.

Following his usual method, Gaudi did not draw up preliminary work plans. Rather, he sketched out the basic forms of construction and then improvised designs and details as he went along. To do this, he needed to be constantly present at the construction site, and as a result, he moved to one of the rooms in the unfinished building of the cathedral. Watching the construction, Gaudi constantly intervened in the progress of the work: unexpected thoughts came to his mind and he tried to implement them, sometimes even stopping work and breaking what had been built … So one of the most amazing structures in the world began to rise above the houses of Barcelona, which caused some confusion among the townspeople Q: What kind of church is this? This is not an anthill, not a stalagmite growing out of the ground, a stone icicle! As conceived by Gaudi, all three facades of the Sagrada Familia were to have a stylistically identical design and be crowned with four high towers of curvilinear outlines. As a result, twelve towers would rise above the temple, each of which would symbolize one of the twelve apostles. And each of the three facades was dedicated to one of the three central plots of the earthly life of Christ: “Christmas”, “The Passion of Christ” and “Resurrection”. As conceived by Gaudi, the facades were supposed to be decorated with huge panels and reliefs on relevant topics.

Despite the fact that Gaudi built the temple for thirty-five years, he managed to build and decorate only the Nativity facade, which is structurally the eastern part of the transept, and four towers above it. The western part of the transept and the apse, which make up most of this majestic building, have not yet been completed. Moreover, the Nativity facade itself was completed only in the 1950s.

Gaudí was particularly sensitive to the interior decoration of the Sagrada Familia. The columns supporting the vaults symbolized the apostles and saints to whom parish churches around the world are dedicated. The shape of the columns is also unusual. In them, Gaudi used various types of polygons, which change as you move up. The columns resemble giant trees, on the crowns of which the sky is frozen. “It will be like a forest. Soft light will pour through the window openings at different heights, and it will seem to you that the stars are shining, ”Gaudi wrote.

Since 1914, Gaudí gave all his strength only to the construction of his temple. The church became his obsession. Delving into himself, he became more and more eccentric, firmly believed in his messianic destiny, lived as a hermit in his workshop located on the construction site, and went out only from time to time “with a hat in his hand” to raise funds for the construction of the church (by the decision of the initiators of the founding temple – the Association of the Admirers of St. Joseph – the construction was to be financed only by donations from parishioners, so work was repeatedly suspended due to lack of funds). One day at 19In 26, on his way to a nearby church for vespers, Gaudí was hit by a tram not far from the construction site. No one recognized the old man, dressed in shabby clothes and looking like a tramp, as an architect known throughout Barcelona. He was sent to the Hospital of Saint Peter and the Holy Cross, a hospital for the poor. Two days later, at the age of 74, Antonio Gaudí died. He is buried in the crypt of the unfinished cathedral.

Construction history since 1926

After the death of Gaudi in 1926, work on the temple continued under the direction of Dominique Sugranes (cat. Domenech Sugranyes ). But soon the events of the Spanish Civil War interrupted construction for several years. During the war, Catalan anarchists destroyed the model of the cathedral and destroyed Gaudí’s drawings. The building itself was also damaged. In the 1940s, work was resumed. In the 80s, at the initiative of the architect Jordi Bonet i Armengol, computer models began to be used to calculate the structures of the cathedral.

In the mid-1990s, disputes arose around the unfinished cathedral about the advisability of continuing work. A group of architects and urban planners, led by renowned Catalan architect Oriol Bohigas, called for their complete end. Nevertheless, the project continued, funded by now conservative Catholic organizations, individuals and from abroad (a significant part of the funds comes from Japan, for example).

The difficulty of making the stone blocks that form the eccentric forms of the cathedral also prevents the project from being completed soon. According to the computer model, each of them requires individual processing and fitting. The preliminary date for completion of construction is 2026 – the centenary of the death of the author of the project, Antonio Gaudi. In 2008, an important stage is to be completed – roofing the central nave of the building.

In 2008, a group of more than 400 Spanish cultural figures (including leading architects, directors, gallery owners) called for a halt to the completion of the cathedral. In their opinion, the creation of the great architect was the victim of a careless, inept restoration for the sake of the tourism industry. ^[1]

Due to its unusual appearance, the unfinished cathedral has become one of the main attractions of Barcelona. According to the newspaper El Periódico de Catalunya , in 2006 the cathedral was visited by 2. 26 million people, which puts it on a par with the Prado Museum and the Alhambra Palace in popularity.

Project description

Gaudí’s goal was to make Sagrada Familia “the last great shrine of Christianity”, as a result of which the architectural elements of the temple are full of Christian symbolism. The strongest impression is made by the spindle-shaped spiers of the cathedral, with a total of 16, symbolizing (as they increase in height) the 12 Apostles, 4 Evangelists, the Blessed Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ. The towers of the Evangelists are decorated with sculptures of their traditional symbols: the bull (St. Luke), the angel (St. Matthew), the eagle (St. John) and the lion (St. Mark). The central spire (of Jesus Christ) will be crowned with a giant cross, so that the maximum height of the cathedral will be 170 m – 1 m lower than Mount Montjuic in Barcelona. So, according to Gaudi’s plan, his creation should not exceed God’s creation. The smaller towers are also decorated with sheaves of wheat and bunches of grapes, symbolizing Holy Communion.