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Check the information below, and know more about the Sagrada Familia cathedral. |
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SAGRADA FAMILIA |
Barcelona,
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Antoni Gaudí's
unfinished church, the Sagrada Familia, is one of Barcelona's many
must-see monuments. It's also one of the most popular of Barcelona's
sights with tourists and there were nearly 40 IH Spanish students
on the visit that was part of this week's social program.
Gaudí took over as the project director a year after work on
the Sagrada Familia had begun in 1882, working on it for more than
40 years until his death, with work on it continuing, on and off,
ever since.
Currently, they are working inside the main nave, as well as one facade,
with the largest (170-meters) bell tower still to be built. There is
little that is gratuitous, that does not symbolise something in Gaudí's
work; the main tower will symbolise Christ, the twelve lower bell
towers (four still to be built) the apostles. The modern abstract figures (1986-) of Josep Maria Subirachs led
to furious local debate that that wasn't anything like what Gaudí
intended. The Glory facade, the one on which much of the current work is being done, is largely
hidden under scaffolding and tarpaulins and the third, through the main nave, currently
also much obscured by scaffolding but interesting nevertheless,
with real stone masons actually building the thing. The Nativity facade, the only one anywhere near finished in Gaudí's time, is
the eastern-most, the one on which the sun rises (that of the Passion,
symbolically, that on which it sets, that of the Glory, that on
which the suns plays during the day). It's heavy and neo-gothic,
with Nativity scene figures and a prominent cypress tree, symbolizing
eternal life, and a liberal smearing of pigeon droppings which may
or may not have been part of the original plan. This latter facade
is virtually complete, but they reckon it could be another 25 to
30 years before the whole thing is done.
One problem was that Gaudí
in fact left few plans for it (he was run over by a Barcelona tram
in 1926) and those that did exist were lost in a fire in 1936; another
that it has been built entirely with donations (not to mention annual
ticket sales well in excess of 1.5 million). And then there were
all those arguments about how it should be continued - or if it
should be continued, even.
Down at ground level again, the museum is interesting, with its
old pictures of the Sagrada Familia as it was at various stages
of its construction, a number of scale models and drawings and a 20 minute video showing you
the sort of shots you would otherwise only see if you were, as a pigeon. |
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Bellow, you can find a listing with all the countries of Europe, their capitals and most relevant cities.
The cities in yellow are available to access. Into anyone, you can find a great amount of information referred to each destiny, such as population, language, history, places of interest and many more. |
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Albania |
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Austria |
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Andorra |
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Azerbaijan |
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Armenia |
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Belarus |
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Belgium |
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Croatia |
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Bosnia
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Cyprus |
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Bulgaria |
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Denmark |
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Finland |
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Estonia |
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Georgia |
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Greece |
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Republic of Ireland |
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Latvia |
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Luxembourg |
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Liechtenstein |
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Republic of Macedonia |
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Lithuania |
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Malta |
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Monaco |
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Northern
Ireland |
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Montenegro |
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Norway |
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Poland |
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Portugal |
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Scotland |
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Romania |
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Serbia |
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Switzerland |
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Ukraine |
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Wales |
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