Sagrada Familia Steps

Steps leading down from one of the Sagrada Familia steeples - Gaudi's amazing architecture - Barcelona, Spain
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by Dave Bowman

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Sagrada Familia Steps

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Dave Bowman

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Steps leading down from one of the Sagrada Familia steeples - Gaudi's amazing architecture - Barcelona, Spain
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The Basilica i Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Familia (English: Basilica and Expiatory Church of the Holy Family), commonly known as the Sagrada Familia, is a large Roman Catholic church in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, designed by Catalan architect Antoni Gaudi (1852-1926). Although incomplete, the church is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and in November 2010 was consecrated and proclaimed a minor basilica by Pope Benedict XVI.
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Though the construction of Sagrada Familia commenced in 1882, Gaudi became involved in 1883, taking over the project and transforming it with his architectural and engineering style combining Gothic and curvilinear Art Nouveau forms.
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Gaudi devoted his last years to the project, and at the time of his death in 1926, less than a quarter of the project was complete. Sagrada Familia's construction progressed slowly, as it relied on private donations and was interrupted by the Spanish Civil War only to resume intermittent progress in the 1950s. Construction passed the midpoint in 2010 with some of the project's greatest challenges remaining and an anticipated completion date of 2026 the centennial of Gaudi's death.
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The style of la Sagrada Familia is variously likened to Spanish Late Gothic, Catalan Modernism and to Art Nouveau or Catalan Noucentisme. Describing Sagrada Familia, art critic Rainer Zerbst said "it is probably impossible to find a church building anything like it in the entire history of art" and Paul Goldberger called it 'the most extraordinary personal interpretation of Gothic architecture since the Middle Ages'.
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Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagrada_Fam%C3%ADlia
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February 2nd, 2010

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