Sagrada Famalia or Basílica de la Sagrada Familia. One of the Top 3! – Barcelona Spain – ECTV

Sagrada Famalia or Basílica de la Sagrada Familia. One of the Top 3! – Barcelona Spain – ECTV

Hey everybody this is eric clex travel videos and i’m here at one of the most amazing incredible churches in and i’d say in the world i think that this one with uh the church of cordoba um are easy in my top three but it’s absolutely amazing i

Have a ticket i’m ready to go at 12 noon and so i think i’m gonna go sit down and have a beer and talk from it and then i’m gonna hit the church and i’ll give you a big rundown on the church let’s go take a look when it’s time and uh

It would be fun bye everybody all right so i figured i’d go through the park here because the park is just really cute and amazing and it’s right out in front of the church but it really is amazing and i don’t know if you can see it from here but you

Can see like up on some of the towers he has the grapes and over there he’s got the oranges and the actual like plants and stuff and you know he just did so many crazy unique things um but it is literally amazing and the inside and the stained glass and

Ah it’s just over the top wow wow wow wow okay i’ll be right back okay everybody the line here is crazy and there’s certainly a bunch of people yes and it is so cold geez okay we’re moving in i’ll be back bye okay everybody it has gone

Left of center it is freezing cold and it is raining like a dog and you have to have a mask on the whole time but let me show you what we got look at all these people i mean you can see the lines down here this is the line

To get in if you have an exact 12 o’clock ticket and then all these people are here filming the front of the cathedral and it looks like it’s almost snowing i mean it literally is freezing cold oh heinous you’re fine i got it above thanks you gracias wow

One of the things that i thought was remarkable i mean he does all these i mean the whole thing is just incredible and there’s so many strange things in this church that’s amazing but i always thought the turtles were amazing and so what do i mean by the turtles

So to see this pillar right here this foundational pillar i mean it supports that whole side of this structure what’s it held up by a turtle and the other side is the exact same way so there’s two turtles that support this entire structure um and there’s the other one and it’s just amazing

That the turtles support it crazy yeah amazing okay i’m gonna go inside as soon as i can oh bye amazing huh and look at the babies the dead babies here and he’s holding a baby and gonna kill the baby up on top and there’s an iguana here sticking his head out

Yeah all right i’m going inside oh it’s cold oh and it’s amazing these are like trees they go up and then they split like tree branches and spread apart and it’s just incredible and then here’s a t whatever the t stands for and there’s a green

Thing and there’s a line over on that one and there’s a you know crossing thing on that one it’s just it’s just crazy wow i’ll be back okay everybody here we go if they cough you walk that’s my saying my kovid saying somebody’s coughing you walking wow look at the

Stained glass on that and it’s amazing how it’s darker red and it kind of works its way through orange and then it works its way through yellow and and then think about this as a tree and it goes up and it branches off and has different branches that go to support the roof

Yeah oh my gosh and look how many people are here it is just crazy okay uh so that side is red and orange this side is blue way over there and then it migrates blue to lighter blue to green to darker green wow look at the spiral staircase you climb wow

It’s really amazing it’s really crazy and so unique wow and look at the railing you know for the you know i don’t know if it’s choir or whatever and how it’s strange and twisted and unique and and the whole walkway is unique and wow and a cow or a bull hmm wow

You those stairs are crazy man oh and now we get into the reds and the oranges and the migration to yellows look at these tours too and the green the door created by joseph m summer features the text of our father and catalan surrounding the central phrase in 50 different languages and expression

Of brotherhood and culture you know this view shows you all the people which is just over the top i’ll slide through there too thank you sorry bro thank you hello foreign laughs okay hit pause as you need to wow spiders foreign yo

The Basílica i Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família (Catalan: [bəˈzilikə ðə lə səˈɣɾaðə fəˈmiljə]; Spanish: Basílica de la Sagrada Familia; ‘Basilica of the Holy Family’),[6] also known as the Sagrada Família, is a large unfinished minor basilica in the Eixample district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Designed by the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí (1852–1926), his work on the building is part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site.[7] On 7 November 2010, Pope Benedict XVI consecrated the church and proclaimed it a minor basilica.[8][9][10]

On 19 March 1882, construction of the Sagrada Família began under architect Francisco de Paula del Villar. In 1883, when Villar resigned,[7] Gaudí took over as chief architect, transforming the project with his architectural and engineering style, combining Gothic and curvilinear Art Nouveau forms. Gaudí devoted the remainder of his life to the project, and he is buried in the crypt. At the time of his death in 1926, less than a quarter of the project was complete.[11]

Relying solely on private donations, the Sagrada Família’s construction progressed slowly and was interrupted by the Spanish Civil War. In July 1936, revolutionaries set fire to the crypt and 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.[12] Construction resumed to intermittent progress in the 1950s. Advancements in technologies such as computer aided design and computerised numerical control (CNC) have since enabled faster progress and construction passed the midpoint in 2010. However, some of the project’s greatest challenges remain, including the construction of ten more spires, each symbolising an important Biblical figure in the New Testament.[11] It was anticipated that the building would be completed by 2026, the centenary of Gaudí’s death,[13] but this has now been delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[14]

The basilica has a long history of splitting opinion among the residents of Barcelona: over the initial possibility it might compete with Barcelona’s cathedral, over Gaudí’s design itself, over the possibility that work after Gaudí’s death disregarded his design,[15] and the 2007 proposal to build a tunnel nearby as part of Spain’s high-speed rail link to France, possibly disturbing its stability.[16] Describing the Sagrada Família, art critic Rainer Zerbst said “it is probably impossible to find a church building anything like it in the entire history of art”,[17] and Paul Goldberger describes it as “the most extraordinary personal interpretation of Gothic architecture since the Middle Ages”.[18] The basilica is not the cathedral church of the Archdiocese of Barcelona, as that title belongs to the Cathedral of the Holy Cross and Saint Eulalia.

The Basílica de la Sagrada Família was the inspiration of a bookseller, Josep Maria Bocabella, founder of Asociación Espiritual de Devotos de San José (Spiritual Association of Devotees of St. Joseph).[19]

After a visit to the Vatican in 1872, Bocabella returned from Italy with the intention of building a church inspired by the basilica at Loreto.[19] The apse crypt of the church, funded by donations, was begun 19 March 1882, on the festival of St. Joseph, to the design of the architect Francisco de Paula del Villar, whose plan was for a Gothic revival church of a standard form.[19] The apse crypt was completed before Villar’s resignation on 18 March 1883, when Antoni Gaudí assumed responsibility for its design, which he changed radically.[19] Gaudi began work on the church in 1883 but was not appointed Architect Director until 1884.

Construction
New stonework at the Sagrada Família (left) is visible against the stained and weathered older sections (right).
On the subject of the extremely long construction period, Gaudí is said to have remarked: “My client is not in a hurry.”[20] When Gaudí died in 1926, the basilica was between 15 and 25 percent complete.[11][21] After Gaudí’s death, work continued under the direction of his main disciple Domènec Sugrañes i Gras until interrupted by the Spanish Civil War in 1936.

Parts of the unfinished basilica and Gaudí’s models and workshop were destroyed during the war by Catalan anarchists.[22] The present design is based on reconstructed versions of the plans that were burned in a fire as well as on modern adaptations. Since 1940, the architects Francesc Quintana, Isidre Puig Boada, Lluís Bonet i Gari and Francesc Cardoner have carried on the work. The illumination was designed by Carles Buïgas. The director until 2012 was the son of Lluís Bonet, Jordi Bonet i Armengol. He has been introducing computers into the design and construction process since the 1980s. In 2012, Barcelona-born Jordi Faulí i Oller [es] took over as architect of the project.[2][3] Mark Burry of New Zealand serves as Executive Architect and Researcher.[23] Sculptures by J. Busquets, Et…..