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One of Gaudí’s goals for the Sagrada Família was to bring religious music to the faithful. To do so, the architect wanted to return to the origins, to Gregorian chants, the traditional music of the Catholic Church from medieval times, and popular Catalan music.

March 19, Saint Joseph's Day, is a significant date at the Sagrada Família. On that day in 1882, the first stone was laid in the temple, an anniversary that this year marks 144 years

The most noteworthy visits and contact of the pontiffs to the Sagrada Familia

The Sagrada Família has reached 172.5 metres, the Temple’s highest point, with the installation of the upper arm of the cross on the tower of Jesus Christ, which completed works on the exterior of this tower. This article looks back at the phases of construction of the cross so far.

Antoni Gaudí made sculptures from real models. One of them was Mariano Barceló, a stonemason at the Sagrada Família who posed for Christ on the crucifix.

Antoni Gaudí wanted the Nativity façade at the Sagrada Família to be a celebration of the joy of life and divine creation. This is why it is full of animals and plants praising the birth of the Messiah and reinforcing the symbolic meaning of the scenes on this façade. We’ll look at them in this post.

Singing was always a big part of Antoni Gaudí’s project for the Sagrada Família. In this post we will discover how Gaudí imagined the choirs (the spaces for the choirs) and their acoustics, how he wanted the singers placed, his taste in music and his relationship with Lluís Millet and Orfeó Català.