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Sagrada Família was inspired by a bookseller, José María Bocabella , founder of Asociación Espiritual de Devotos de San José (Spiritual Association of Devotees of St. Joseph). After a visit to the Vatican in 1872, Bocabella returned from Italy with the intention of building a church inspired by the basilica at Loreto .
Aerial view towards La Sagrada Familia, Barcelona, Spain. Gaudí was run down by a tram on 7 June 1926, and died of his wounds on 10 June. He is buried in Sagrada Familia. After his death, Gaudí's works suffered a period of neglect and were largely unpopular among international critics, who regarded them as baroque and excessively imaginative.
Close-up floral details of the Portal of Charity at the Nativity Façade of the Sagrada Família, by Etsuro Sotoo [5] In 1978 Etsuro Sotoo visited Barcelona and was impressed by the Sagrada Família. [6] He worked as a stonecutter and has been working since then on sculptures for the building, following the instructions left by Antoni Gaudí ...
The basilica was built in 1882, and over the next 142 years it would be perpetually under construction, with pauses during the Spanish Civil War in in the 1930s, and during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Officials of the Sagrada Família basilica have announced that its construction, which started in 1882, will reach completion by 2026. After 142 years, Spain's iconic Sagrada Família nears completion
The Sagrada Familia pictured in 1940 - Hulton Archive/Getty Images When Gaudí died in 1926, only an estimated 10%-15% of the project had been built , including one transept, a crypt and some of ...
Sagrada Família Plaça de toros de la Monumental , one of the two former bullrings of Barcelona Domènec Sugrañes i Gras ( Catalan pronunciation: [duˈmɛnək suˈɣɾaɲəz i ˈɣɾas] ; 12 December 1878 – 9 August 1938) was a Catalan modernist architect and disciple of Antoni Gaudí .
The four towers on Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia have been completed more than 140 years after the first stone was laid. Each represents one of the four evangelists, and the final sculptural ...