Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia will be completed in 2026
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#2The article mistakenly refers to Sagrada Familia as the cathedral of Barcelona. It's not. It's a minor basilica, not a cathedral.
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#3I live here in Barcelona, it's a sight to behold :) It's minor basilica, not a cathedral though,
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#4The article mistakenly refers to Sagrada Familia as the cathedral of Barcelona. It's not. It's a minor basilica, not a cathedral.
The actual cathedral of Barcelona is "The Cathedral of the Holy Cross and Saint Eulalia", which yeah, is not Sagrada Familia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcelona_Cathedral
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#5It's amazing if you haven't gone, especially when sunlight streams in through the windows.
I saw a quote while I was there that was something along the lines of, "Gaudí is not an artist with whom posthumous collaboration is possible." A couple minutes walking around the church is all that's needed to confirm that notion.
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#6The article mistakenly refers to Sagrada Familia as the cathedral of Barcelona. It's not. It's a minor basilica, not a cathedral.
I'm curious what "minor" means exactly in this context?
I've seen the Sagrada familia, and it ain't small!
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#7It's amazing if you haven't gone, especially when sunlight streams in through the windows. I saw a quote while I was there that was something along the lines of, "Gaudí is not an artist with whom posthumous collaboration is possible." A couple minutes walking around the church is all that's needed to confirm that notion.
> I saw a quote while I was there that was something along the lines of, "Gaudí is not an artist with whom posthumous collaboration is possible." A couple minutes walking around the church is all that's needed to confirm that notion.
Maybe I misunderstand "posthumous collaboration", but the church is literally being built after Gaudi's demise by a bunch of other people, isn't that posthumous collaboration?
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#8The article mistakenly refers to Sagrada Familia as the cathedral of Barcelona. It's not. It's a minor basilica, not a cathedral.
I'm curious what "minor" means exactly in this context? I've seen the Sagrada familia, and it ain't small!
Organizational hierarchy of the Catholic Church: a building is a cathedral if and only if it is the seat of a bishop, no matter how grand or modest the building is. There can not be more than one cathedral in a diocese.
But colloquially, Sagrada Familia is what most people would consider a cathedral.
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#9It won't. Gaudí's plan was to build a big staircase in front of it creating a new public square next to the temple, replacing some apartment buildings currently being used. Gaudí's project won't be finished until then.
There's some pushback from the neighbors because finishing it all means bulldozing hundreds of apartments, although those apartments were bought at a discounted price decades ago because everyone knew they had an expiration date. And now that it's here, they want to keep their apartments even though they were told about the Sagrada Família from the start.
PS: Gaudí's name is Antoni, in Catalan. Not Antonio. He was a proud Catalan, he was arrested for talking in Catalan.
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#10There are a number of material and technology advances [1] that accelerated the pace of the Sagrada Familia's construction — the techniques used to construct the basilica have evolved significantly since construction began.
https://www.archdaily.com/964178/from-handcrafted-stone-to-3...