Sagrada Família

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.

At nearly 200 meters above the ground, crane operators play a key role in the Sagrada Família towering up into the Barcelona sky

We get to know Antoni Gaudi’s professional and personal sides with Armand Puig

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...

Why did Gaudí decide to use reinforced concrete to make the interior structure of the Sagrada Família?

The columns inside the Sagrada Família, one of Antoni Gaudí’s most noteworthy contributions to the world of architecture, are unique in shape (double twist) and tree-like structure, which allows them to absorb and distribute the Temple loads.