Guadi Barcelona / SAGRADA FAMILIA Barcelona
SAGRADA FAMILIA BARCELONA
ANTONI GAUDI SAGRADA FAMILIA STILL IN RECONSTRUCTION!!
  
Sagrada Familia, Barcelona - The inside/Sagrada Familia, Barcelona - The truls/Sagrada Familia, Barcelona -Inside
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SAGRADA FAMILIA VISIT HOURS
Working days: 9:00 h. Spanish, 20:15 h. Catalan
Saturdays: 9:00 h. Spanish, 19:30h. Catalan
Sundays and Holidays:
9:00 h. Spanish, 10:30 h. Catalan, 11:45 h. Spanish, 13:00 h. Catalan,
18:30 h. Catalan, 20:15 h. Spanish |
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Sagrada Familia is the most known Barcelona's landmark. It is located in "eixample" area
and has a homonym metro station nearby.
A majestic church which left unfinished when Gaudi died in 1926.
Unfortunatelly DURING THE LAST 80 YEARS and for some more yet to come,
Sagrada Famillia is UNDER CONSTRUCTION.
In case you insist on visiting this great monument (before 2030-the year that is estimated
that the project will complete) you should be prepared
for a long queue in the entrance area, and try not to get dissappointed
of the empty interior due to the reconstruction that take place.
20 euros(!!!) fare entry is required without any serious information about.
The exterior is truly outstanding, so you must visit this touristic attraction and have a cup of coffee
in one of the closest coffee-places of this area.
ENTRANCE ON THE PASSION FACADE:
C. Sardenya, Metro: L2 | L5 - Sagrada Família exit
INDEPENDENT
Admission (20euros per person) is paid directly at the ticket office.
The price does NOT include the lift to the towers.
Avoid queues!
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Gaudi's Sagrada Familia, Barcelona - Inside window / Gaudi's Sagrada Familia, Barcelona - Outside design
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ANTONI GAUDÍ:
AN EXCEPTIONAL MAN |
Antoni Gaudí is one of the outstanding figures of Catalan culture and international architecture. He was born in Baix Camp (Reus, Riudoms), but it was in Barcelona that he studied, worked and lived with his family. It is also in the city that we find most of his work. He was first and foremost an architect, but he also designed furniture and objects and worked in town planning and landscaping, amongst other disciplines. In all those fields he developed a highly expressive language of his own and created a body of work that speaks directly to the senses.
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Gaudí spent most of his professional career building the Expiatory Church of La Sagrada Família, He received the commission in late 1883 and it occupied the his whole life. He did other work there, such as the Provisional Schools of La Sagrada Família (1909), and the construction of the workshop, where he worked with models and photographs, and where for his final years he went to live to follow the work from closer up. Walter Gropius came to the church in 1907, but did not manage to talk to Gaudí, “who was working busily”.
In 1910 Güell promoted an exhibition of Gaudí’s work at Le Grand Palais in Paris, It had a certain international echo, which reached as far as the United States and introduced him to the architect Sullivan (Chicago School).
A few years later, in 1922, the Congress of Spanish Architects was held in Barcelona and supported his work. The same year he received a commission to do a project for a church for Our Lady of Rancagua, in Chile, for which he proposed to build the chapel of the Assumption in the apse.
In 1923-1924 the architects Neufert and Linder, on the advice of Walter Gropius, visited Gaudí. They made friends with him and published an important article in the journal Deutsche Bauzeitung.
above info from: http://www.sagradafamilia.cat/ |
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