What Gaudi said about Sagrada Familia?

Gaudi famously said 'my client is in no hurry. ' God, he presumed, has all the time in the world. When it is finally completed it will have taken 10 times longer to build than the Great Pyramid of Giza. The Sagrada Familia has been controversial from the very beginning.



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One outstanding feature of this structure is its height. He designed the central tower to be approximately 170 meters. He believed that nothing made by man should be taller than God's creation, for this reason, it is one meter shorter than the mountain of Barcelona, Montjuïc.

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It evoked opposite emotions in George Orwell, the British writer, who called the church “one of the most hideous buildings in the world.”

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The most recent date set for the cathedral's completion is 2026. This would leave just three years to finish the Glory façade, an elaborate entrance with a grand staircase, and finally give the towering monument its intended front.

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One of the seven wonders of the World - Review of Basilica de la Sagrada Familia, Barcelona, Spain - Tripadvisor.

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Gaudi was born in Catalonia in 1852 into a wealthy family and a life filled, as Tarragona puts it, with horses, opera, and the best restaurants.

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