The Sagrada Família , Expiatori Temple of Sagrada Família of its complete name, works unfinished of the Architecte Antoni Gaudí, is located in the district of the Eixample of Barcelona.

History

In 1882, Josep Mr. Bocabella had bought grounds to build a temple dedicated to the Holy Family. Dissensions emerged with the first architect, Francesc of Paula Villar, and work was then entrusted to Gaudí, which modified the original project and made it more ambitious. She was in competition to become one of the Seven new wonders of the world.

During the last years of its life, Gaudí did not work and lived practically only for the Temple of Sagrada Família and, when he died, he left very many plans, projects and outlines (the plans and models unfortunately almost all were destroyed during the war of Spain, ten years after the death of Gaudí).

Work which is currently made to complete Sagrada Família respects the projects of Gaudí more or less, but certainly not in the details, adapted sometimes to the modern Esthétique and the style of the artists who create them, which causes many polemics.

The delivery was planned for 2020 or 2023, but currently one speaks officially about 2026, centenary of died of Gaudí, although it will rather take place about 2030. That will make one century and half of construction, like the Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris, collective work for which, there too, the companions worked without preestablished plans. The Temple is registered right now on the Liste of the world heritage of UNESCO.

Moreover, data processing will make it possible to better interpret the large models worked out by Gaudi, thanks to an industrial software of CAD.

The president of the committee manufacturer, Joan Rigol, announced at the beginning of June 2006 that the cathedral “will be covered at the end of 2008”, which will make it possible to open it with the worship, so that, in the long term, it “is not only one church, nor only one tourist place”.

Anecdote

Salvador Dali considered that one should entrust the completion of the cathedral to the drivers of tram on a purely expiatory basis , Gaudí having found death reversed by a tram.

Images of the basilica

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