Holy Family Cathedral. Barcelona.

This Cathedral is located in Barcelona. A truly beautiful building. Its name is no less beautiful, the Cathedral of the Holy Family. Antonio Gaudi was engaged in design of this Cathedral, he devoted to it as much as 43 years.

The idea of construction of this building appeared in the 1866, but the building itself started later, in 1882, In those years two men, it was a priest and a bookseller, he created a community of Admirers of St. Joseph. Originally, this Cathedral was supposed to be sinners, homeless people. It is like a kind of help for travelers and disembodied people. The Cathedral was built on the vacant lot next to grazing goats, that is, it was an abandoned place. Interesting, too. that it was built on the donations of people, all wishing to give a donation thus offered to Express their love to God.

A year later, in 1883, was invited to Barcelona by the master to whom it was proposed to build a beautiful building of the Cathedral, but he had such tremendous plans, and life would not be enough for the realization of his plans. A lot of things he had planned, for example to line up three of the facade, as a symbol of the life of Jesus - Nativity, Passion and Glory.

This Cathedral has 12 towers, and this number is symbolic, and the highest of the towers, considered the main, that it represents Jesus. Its height is 170 meters! People, animals, these figures decorate the walls of the Cathedral, they are life-size.

In the summer, on the seventh of June, 1926, Gaudi was run over by a bus, at that time he was 73 years old. Apparently it was an accident, a very tragic death. The great master was buried in the Cathedral, or rather in the chapel of the Cathedral. But the Cathedral itself has not yet been finalized, it is still being completed and ennobled. Some talk. that the construction will be completed closer to 2026.

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