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Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia gets building permit after 137 years

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Re: Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia gets building permit after 137 years

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I scoured for old photos of it, didn't find many: 1915 http://suitelife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/736px-Sagrad... 1915 https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5c/La_Sagra...

We should remember that this was more than 100 years ago. 100 years is a long time. A lot of our collective subconscious is still acting like we’re stuck in 1982, but the XX century is long over.

Ahem! Born in 2001.

Re: Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia gets building permit after 137 years

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We should remember that this was more than 100 years ago. 100 years is a long time. A lot of our collective subconscious is still acting like we’re stuck in 1982, but the XX century is long over.

Not sure exactly what point you are trying to make.

That it’s not that impressive that a city will grow significantly in 100 years.

Re: Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia gets building permit after 137 years

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The article misses an important bit of info: when the construction started, the Sagrada Familia was not in Barcelona, but in an independent municipality, Sant Martí de Provençals. It was to this municipality that the building permit was requested, not to Barcelona, which would annex the municipality and with it, the Sagrada Familia, 15 years later. Plus, most of the documentation regarding the building, including pla…

Can you elaborate more on this "fire caused by anarchists", please?

Re: Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia gets building permit after 137 years

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The article misses an important bit of info: when the construction started, the Sagrada Familia was not in Barcelona, but in an independent municipality, Sant Martí de Provençals. It was to this municipality that the building permit was requested, not to Barcelona, which would annex the municipality and with it, the Sagrada Familia, 15 years later. Plus, most of the documentation regarding the building, including pla…

Can you elaborate more on this "fire caused by anarchists", please?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Terror_(Spain)#Early_outbr...

Re: Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia gets building permit after 137 years

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Can you elaborate more on this "fire caused by anarchists", please?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Terror_(Spain)#Early_outbr...

Thanks, I'll look into it.

(From the downvote, someone apparently didn't appreciate my asking).

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