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Why wait? If you’ve always wanted to see Spain, then Barcelona is the place to go. It’s beautiful, it’s romantic and it has a lot of fun things to do and see. Don’t keep putting off taking the vacation that you dream of, get off your rear and start planning it today. You only live once so what are you waiting for?
If you plan a visit in Barcelona, Sagrada Familia shall be the first on things which must be seen!
Sagrada Familia is a church, “the church of the poor”, as Antonio Gaudi, its architect, used to say. Antonio Gaudi was a genial, brilliant ,succesfull architect, which dedicated his life mainly to Sagrada Familia. He joined the group of Modernista, active by the end of 19th century, was a fervent catholic and a catalan nationalist.
First design of Sagrada Familia and the first stones falled in 1883. Two years later, Gaudi had the genial idea of making the bell towers round, instead of square, as usually! In 1923 the Saint Joseph chapel, the crypt and the east facing were completed. In 1926 Gaudi died smashed by a tram near his church.
