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Everything Everywhere Daily

The Sagrada Familia

Everything Everywhere Daily

Gary Arndt

History, Education

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2020

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Every year, more than three million visitors will line up and buy a ticket to visit the most popular attraction in all of Spain: The Sagrada Familia. It is a stunning modernist architectural achievement and the crowning design of local architect Antoni Gaudí. Even though it gets millions of visitors, the church has been under construction for almost 150 years and still isn’t finished. Learn more about the Sagrada Familia, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Every year more than 3 million visitors will line up and buy a ticket to the most popular attraction in all of Spain, the Segrata Familia.

0:07.0

It's a stunning modernist architectural achievement in the crowning design of local architect and Tony Gowdy.

0:13.4

Even though it gets millions of visitors, the church has been under construction for almost

0:17.2

150 years and it still isn't finished.

0:20.3

Learn more about the Basilica of the Holy Family,

0:22.6

aka the Sagrada Familia,

0:24.5

on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. This episode is sponsored by the Tourist Office of Spain. The Sagretta Familia is undoubtedly one of the

0:44.8

architectural wonders of Spain but it's far from being the only one. The Frank

0:48.7

Gary Design Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao is a signature example of

0:52.2

postmodern architecture. In Seville you can find one of the largest

0:55.3

cathedrals in the world. In Granada you can experience the masterpiece of Moorish Islamic design at the

1:00.9

El-Ombra. In Merida you can see ancient designs from the Roman Empire.

1:05.0

And just a few blocks away from the Sagrata Familia, you can find the Art Nouveau classic, The Hospital Desant-Pau.

1:11.0

Spain has architecture for every taste. You can start

1:15.3

researching your dream trip to Spain today by visiting Spain. info where you can get

1:20.0

everything you need to know to plan your Spanish adventure.

1:22.8

The Genesis of the Sagrata Familia dates back to 1872 with a bookkeeper named

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Joseph Maria Bookabella. He took a trip to Italy

1:35.3

and became enamored with the Basilica of Loreto. He wanted Barcelona to have a

1:39.8

great church too. He began fundraising, and in 1882, construction began on the church

1:45.3

with a design by architect Francisco de Pala de Ville. The original design was to be a

1:50.4

neo-Gothic church, pretty similar to what the vast majority of

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