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Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia will be completed in 2026

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Re: Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia will be completed in 2026

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Post by lqet »

jihadjihad wrote: post #5

It'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.

> It's amazing if you haven't gone, especially when sunlight streams in through the windows.

I have been to Barcelona 4 times since I was a kid (1998, 2006, 2009, 2014), and every time the Sagrada Familia looked a little more finished, but still far from being completed. It blows my mind that it will finally be completed in 2 years.

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Post by eadmund »

amarant wrote: post #6
anon291 wrote: post #2

The 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!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilicas_in_the_Catholic_Chur... indicates that there are four major basilicas and almost 2,000 minor ones.

Seems like the four major basilicas have historical (maybe even pre-Schism?) associations, while the minor ones are designated by the pope.

Re: Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia will be completed in 2026

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Post by diggan »

overview wrote: post #15
diggan wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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?

It’s referring to the collaboration on the design itself.

Even that isn't true. Lots of original models/drawings have been lost, new designers interpret or reconstruct what they think Gaudi wanted to do, based on incomplete plans or where decisions weren't fully made.

Not to mention new materials are available today that are being used and new processes/workflows which change the results slightly too.

Sagrada Familia isn't a 100% implementation of the original vision, as even the original vision was incomplete when Gaudi died.

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Post by simonbarker87 »

martibravo wrote: post #9

It 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…

> There's some pushback

Quite understandable as well. The thing is big enough as it is. Bought at a discount or not, bulldozing that many homes in an overpopulated city that already struggles for space due to its geography is a little ludicrous.

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Post by simonbarker87 »

I feel like the only person in the world who was thoroughly underwhelmed by it and really don’t see how its future space requirements for a staircase can be justified.

This isn’t me trying to be edgy, I like cathedrals, this one (and his general style) just left me cold. Duomo in Milan was far better imo.

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Post by Cheer2171 »

anon291 wrote: post #2

The article mistakenly refers to Sagrada Familia as the cathedral of Barcelona. It's not. It's a minor basilica, not a cathedral.

I literally couldn't care less, but I'll wade into the depths of pedantry with you. It did not refer to the "cathedral of Barcelona", it just called it "the cathedral". Cathedral has an official meaning in Catholicism, but the colloquial use of cathedral in the US means "large fancy church building" and not "Capitol of a Catholic jurisdiction”.

Pitt didn't call their big building the Cathedral of Learning because their equivalent of a bishop in their organizational hierarchy sits there.

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