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Quina música volia Gaudí a l’interior de la Sagrada Família?
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What music did Gaudí envision inside the Sagrada Família?

 • 9 min. reading

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.

Angelina Torres: «They told me they were going to build a church that would be the pride of Catalonia»

Angelina Torres: «They told me they were going to build a church that would be the pride of Catalonia»

 • 6 min. reading

She was 112 years and almost 8 months old. Angelina Torres Vallbona was the oldest person in Spain. The fifth of seven siblings, Torres was born in 1913 (one year before World War I) in Bellvís...

Sagrada Família’s history with the Pope
Cerimonia de dedicació de la Basílica pel Papa Benet XVI. Angelus

Sagrada Família’s history with the Pope

 • 5 min. lectura

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

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