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Barcelona, Catalunya

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Antoni Gaudi in 1878
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26 years, 1878
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While Greg & I were humbling ourselves at Montserrat, our wives were touring Barcelona.
Jenn and Alissa witnessed a number of great works of architecture by Antoni Gaudí, one
of Catalunya's favorite sons. Barcelona's most revered attraction is the intricate
and as yet unfinished Basilica and Expiatory Church of the Holy Family. Most people
know what you're talking about when you mention the name in short form, la Sagrada Familia.

Having never seen this myself, I can only write what I am told...
Passion façade,
la Sagrada Familia
3 June 2010
You get a good idea of the size of the church in this picture.
Alissa & Jenn,
Passion façade
9 June 2010
This facade of Sagrada is symbolic of Christ's suffering
Christ's suffering.
Passion façade
9 June 2010
Notice the rooster... Judas?
Betrayal of Christ?
Passion façade
9 June 2010
Inside the sanctuary. Photo by Brianna
Inside the sanctuary.
Columns & windows.
9 June 2010
Inside the church. Photo by Brianna
Gone to church.
The sanctuary.
9 June 2010
This is part of Sagrada Familia.
The schools,
built in 1909
9 June 2010
Photo by Brianna
Passion façade,
or 'The Front,'
9 June 2010
Each west tower is named for an apostle
James, Thomas, Phillip
and Bartholomew
9 June 2010
Each pillar is shaped like a bone.
Passion faces West.
Sagrada Familia
9 June 2010
Take a walk.
Externae of the Naves.
Scaffolding on parade.
9 June 2010
Good time to hire Navajo workers, I guess?
Might be completed
by about 2026
9 June 2010
Photo by Alissa
West Towers in
true light.
9 June 2010
Photo by Brianna
Scaffolding on the
western aspect
9 June 2010
Look up when the modern era ended.
Modern era sculpture
Sagrada Familia
9 June 2010

Greg & I thought for sure that our wives would get misplaced in Barcelona,
but they usually returned to the apartment before he & I did. As we learned later,
after we'd become hopelessly lost riding the buses, the ladies did quite well at
getting around the city on trains, and on foot. In contrast, the husbands got lost!

If you can read this, you are VERY close.
Detail,
Passion façade,
9 June 2010
The Pope visited soon after this.
Apologies for construction,
Passion façade,
9 June 2010
The entire West entrance here.
A big picture,
Passion façade
9 June 2010
Stained glass from inside a nave
Inside one of
the many naves,
9 June 2010
Amazing modern sculpture.
Vaults of the
central nave
9 June 2010
Photo by Brianna
Column in detail,
Sagrada Familia
9 June 2010
Construction tools & finished glass
Spanish sunlight,
Sagrada Familia
9 June 2010
A unique perspective.
Columns & vaults,
Sagrada Familia
9 June 2010
Gaudi was not necessarily a detail man.
Inside the naves,
Sagrada Familia
9 June 2010
Photo by Brianna
Ambient light in
Sagrada Familia
9 June 2010
Still under construction, I guess...
Fine glassworks,
Sagrada Familia
9 June 2010
I like the way the white light blurs itself.
White light,
Sagrada Familia
9 June 2010
Dem bones. Dem bones...
Bone-like columns,
a Gaudi statement
9 June 2010
In her element
Jenn under the
vaults at Sagrada
9 June 2010
Mom & daughter
Alissa & Brianna
appreciating Gaudi
9 June 2010

Alissa & Jenn went on a bus tour on their first visit here, but the next time,
they rode the train & made their own way, when Brianna was with them.
I think they had a better visit the second time. Imagine if they'd had a 3rd visit!

Sorrow. Sorrow. Salvation.
Bones & sorrow,
such is Passion!
9 June 2010
You'll have to look this one up...
Saint Longinus,
Passion façade,
9 June 2010
The western entrance is La Ultima...
Frontispiece for
Salvation...
9 June 2010
Someday, the cranes will be gone.
Tourists, cranes,
towers, & crosses.
9 June 2010

All images Copyright 2011 by
Alissa Boykin, Brianna Figueroa & Jennifer Handelman
except for the top row... stuff from the web...

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