 Sagrada Familia (La)Gaudí's most important work
Address: Mallorca, 402 - At the Fira de Barcelona & Moll de la Fusta
08025 - L'Eixample
Barcelona
Nearest Bus or Train:Sagrada Familia
Open Hours:9a-8p M-Su
Gaudí began this utterly surreal temple in 1882 and it still hasn't been completed. It was originally intended to be a modest, neo-Gothic church, but it has become the most famous building in Barcelona. Gaudí broke away from the reigning neo-Gothic style of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and imbued every element of the Sagrada Família with symbolic meaning. Turtles form the base of columns (the Chinese symbol of order within chaos) and the capitals are palm trees. The most outstanding features of the building are the baroque style, the mixture of colors and the diversity of materials used (plaster, ceramics, mosaic, iron and many types of stone). Mass is held at 9a & 8:15p M-Sa, 9a, 10:30a, 11:45a, 1p, 7p & 8:15p on Su and holidays.
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