Sagrada Família
Sagrada Família, the Basílica i Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família, is a Catholic church in Barcelona designed by Antoni Gaudí—and it remains the largest unfinished Catholic church in the world. Construction began on 19 March 1882 under architect Francisco de Paula del Villar; when Villar resigned in 1883, Gaudí took over and reshaped the project by blending Gothic elements with curvilinear Art Nouveau forms. Less than a quarter of the work was complete when Gaudí died in 1926, and he is buried in the church’s crypt. The basilica’s progress was repeatedly interrupted: it relied on private donations, and during the Spanish Civil War in July 1936, anarchists from the FAI set fire to the crypt and damaged Gaudí’s original plans. …
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