Travel log: La Sagrada Familia, Barcelona, Spain, 2014
Hi there, welcome to my travel log. I shot this video when I traveled to Barcelona in 2014 and did a voice-over on a later date since it was too noisy in the open for me to record anything clearly. Among many places to see in Barcelona, I visited this breathtaking roman catholic church called Sagrada Familia. It is one of the most beautiful buildings that I have ever seen; I am from India, and I have seen the Taj Mahal. Sagrada Familia first started to be built in 1882, and it is still under construction expected to be completed by 2026. On November 7, 2010, Pope Benedict consecrated the church and proclaimed it a minor basilica. If traveling to Barcelona is in your bucket list, then you can’t miss this architectural marvel, and I would advise you to book your tickets in advance to avoid wasting a good chunk of your time waiting in the queue. You can reach this basilica by public transport from anywhere in Barcelona without any problem. It’s very well connected. Sagrada Familia was designed by the Spanish architect Antoni Gaudí who after his death got buried in the crypt of the church. By the time of Gaudi’s death in 1926, only less than a quarter of the project was complete. Since then the church’s construction solely relied on private donations and faced interruptions on multiple accounts. In July 1936, the Spanish civil war revolutionaries set fire to the crypt. They broke their way into the workshop, partially destroying Gaudí’s original plans, drawings, and plaster models, which led to 16 years of work to piece together the fragments of the master model. It’s only after the advent of computer-aided design that the church’s construction sped up, but it still has to go many more years before it is complete according to Gaudi’s original plan. If you are interested to know more about Sagrada Familia, then please visit it’s website sagradafamilia.org, and now I am going to leave you to watch the rest of the video.