Please do post all the photos you like when you get your tour of the interior, along with anything else by Gaudi you see while in Barcelona. Definitely on my bucket list, though every one warns me it is like a giant Disneyland amusement. I have friends who were so inspired they came home and built a Gaudi-esque courtyard at the end of their driveway.

YES!

Over fifty years ago!

San Simeon vs. Sagrada Familla: Apples and Pears. I have been watching the Sagrada Familla being built since the seventies. Many Catalans are very upset about the state of the current project. Gaudi didn't leave plans and the additions are based on imagined projections. They are also made with pre-stressed concrete unlike the original which was stone on stone. The whole project is very controversial. The statuary on the new transept's towers is incongruous with the old towers. Having said that, I am ambivalent as to whether it should have been finished. On one hand his dream has been stolen, and on the other, one can't help but want to see the finished product. It will be the tallest "Gothic" (really Spanish Modernist} cathedral in the world. If you want to see Gaudi at his best, visit the Pedrera.

Liverpool Cathedral (Anglican) took nearly as long to build 1904 - 1978 and got finished up early without its planned spire. Designed by Giles Gilbert Scott, the same guy who did the iconic British red telephone box. It exhausted the Woolton quarry of sandstone (after which "the Quarrymen" ne Beatles were called). I have met guys that served their apprenticeships and retirement on that job.
One regret is I never went to see "Murder in the cathedral" about Thomas Becket played there. Impressive building
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It inspired this song, not only the building, but the artists/architects experiences on "Tragic Week"

"An event that had a profound impact on Gaudí's personality was Tragic Week in 1909. Gaudí remained in his house in Güell Park during this turbulent period. The anticlerical atmosphere and attacks on churches and convents caused Gaudí to worry for the safety of the Sagrada Família, but the building escaped damage."

"By Tuesday, workers had occupied much of central Barcelona, halting troop trains and overturning trams. By Thursday, there was street fighting, with a general eruption of riots, strikes, and the burnings of convents. Many of the rioters were antimilitarist, anticolonial and anticlerical. The rioters considered the Roman Catholic Church a part of the corrupt middle and upper class whose sons did not have to go to war, and much public opinion had been turned against the Church by anarchist elements within the city. Thus, not only were convents burned, but sepulchers were profaned and graves were emptied. Of 112 buildings set fire to during the disturbances, 80 were church-owned or associated."

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I love Barcelona. Park Guell, amazing place.

I instantly recognized this as the work of architect, Antoni Gaudi -- a mad genius whose work is distinctive for his gothic designs on acid look. Do a Google image search and you'll be floored by the buildings he created. They're awesomely insane.

Oh, have you been to the park? Guell? I loved it there

Sagrada Familia is a very fascinating example of architecture. I've been there, and loved every bit of it, inside and out. Of course, I had to ignore the religious nonsense, but as a work of architecture, it is a wonderful place.

And when will it ever be finished? Supposedly in 2026. It was begun 135 years ago!