Sagrada Familia. Gaudi. Barcelona. Spain. At sunset after the storm is a photograph by Guido Montanes Castillo which was uploaded on March 19th, 2022.
Sagrada Familia. Gaudi. Barcelona. Spain. At sunset after the storm
Sagrada FamÃlia. Gaudi. Barcelona. Spain.At sunset after the storm
The BasÃlica i Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada FamÃlia (Catalan:... more
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Sagrada Familia. Gaudi. Barcelona. Spain. At sunset after the storm
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Guido Montanes Castillo
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Sagrada FamÃlia. Gaudi. Barcelona. Spain.At sunset after the storm
The BasÃlica i Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada FamÃlia (Catalan: [bəˈzilikÉ™ ðə lÉ™ səˈɣɾaðə fəˈmiljÉ™]; Spanish: BasÃlica de la Sagrada Familia; 'Basilica of the Holy Family'),[6] also known as the Sagrada FamÃlia, is a large unfinished minor basilica in the Eixample district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Designed by the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudà (1852–1926), his work on the building is part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site.[7] On 7 November 2010, Pope Benedict XVI consecrated the church and proclaimed it a minor basilica.[8][9][10]
On 19 March 1882, construction of the Sagrada FamÃlia began under architect Francisco de Paula del Villar. In 1883, when Villar resigned,[7] Gaudà took over as chief architect, transforming the project with his architectural and engineering style, combining Gothic and curvilinear Art Nouveau forms. Gaudà devoted the remainder of his life to the project, and he is buried in the crypt. At the time of his death in 1926, less than a quarter of the project was complete.[11]
Relying solely on private donations, the Sagrada FamÃlia's construction progressed slowly and was interrupted by the Spanish Civil War. In July 1936, revolutionaries set fire to the crypt and broke their way into the workshop, partially destroying GaudÃ's original plans, drawings and plaster models, which led to 16 years of work to piece together the fragments of the master model.[12] Construction resumed to intermittent progress in the 1950s. Advancements in technologies such as computer aided design and computerised numerical control (CNC) have since enabled faster progress and construction passed the midpoint in 2010. However, some of the project's greatest challenges remain, including the construction of ten more spires, each symbolising an important Biblical figure in the New Testament.[11] It was anticipated that the building would be completed by 2026, the centenary of GaudÃ's death,[13] but this has now been delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[14]
The basilica has a long history of splitting opinion among the residents of Barcelona: over the initial possibility it might compete with Barcelona's cathedral, over GaudÃ's design itself, over the possibility that work after GaudÃ's death disregarded his design,[15] and the 2007 proposal to build a tunnel nearby as part of Spain's high-speed rail link to France, possibly disturbing its stability.[16] Describing the Sagrada FamÃlia, art critic Rainer Zerbst said "it is probably impossible to find a church building anything like it in the entire history of art",[17] and Paul Goldberger describes it as "the most extraordinary personal interpretation of Gothic architecture since the Middle Ages".[18] The basilica is not the
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