La Sagrada Familia is a cathedral partly designed by Gaudi. It was started in 1882 and will be finished in 2026. To get into La Sagrada Familia you have to wait in a queue that goes round half the cathedral.
The first thing I saw was about 12 different stone pictures on the wall, a façade. The pictures were of Jesus dying. On the other side of the cathedral there were pictures of Jesus being born. We spent ages looking at the façade.
The columns in the cathedral looked like trees, because they had leaves and branches.
La Sagrada Familia has 8 tall towers. We went up the Philip and Thomas’s Towers (two of Jesus’s disciples.) La Sagrada Familia was really amazing and fun. It was a loooong way down from the towers.
I am amazed that it's so old and they are still working on it! I think that Dave and Janet went there. You are so lucky!
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It is a totally remarkable edifice. I think the York Minster also took many many years to complete, but of the two that one looks a lot more intriguing, with all the organic curvy shapes. It gives the impression that the designers were having fun. It was certainly worth waiting patiently in the queue.
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Kate
WOW!! Thats OLD!! But to think it's STILL being BUILT?! AND it's SSSOOOO HUGE!!
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It looks a lot more complete than it did even in 2009, when Janet and I last visited it! It's certainly a wonderful building - I agree with you about the columns that are like trees - a lot of the shape are very organic; i think Gaudi was very inspired by the shapes of nature and he certainly looked at trees to get inspiration for the design of those internal columns and buttresses.
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