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WAYNE WALTON
Don't Miss
La Sagrada Família
If you only have time for one sightseeing outing, this should be it. La Sagrada Família in-
spires awe with its sheer verticality and, in the true manner of the great medieval cathed-
rals it emulates, it's still not finished after more than 100 years. Work is proceeding apace,
however, and it might be done anytime between the 2020s and 2040s.
The church was the project to which Antoni Gaudí dedicated the latter part of his life.
He stuck to a basic Gothic cross-shaped ground plan, but devised a temple 95m long and
60m wide, with capacity for 13,000 people.
The northeast, or Nativity Facade , is the Sagrada Família's artistic pinnacle and was
partly completed under Gaudí's personal supervision. You can climb high up inside some
of the four towers by a combination of lifts and narrow spiral staircases - a vertiginous ex-
perience.