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The southwest
Passion Facade
, which has the theme of Christ's last days and death,
has been constructed since the 1950s with (like the Nativity Facade) four needling towers
and a large, sculpture-bedecked portal.
The semicircular
apse
was the first part to be finished (in 1894). The interior of the
church remains a building site but it was roofed over in 2010. A forest of extraordinary
angled pillars soars up and branches out to support this roof.
Open the same times as the church, the
Museu Gaudí
, below ground level, includes
interesting material on Gaudí's life and other works, as well as models and photos of La
Sagrada Família. You can look down onto Gaudí's burial place in the crypt below the mu-
seum (under the transept).
NEED TO KNOW
Offline map
Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família;
www.sagradafamilia.org
;
Car-
rer de Mallorca 401; adult/senior & student €12.50/10.50;
9am-8pm;
Sagrada Família
CASA BATLLÓ
Modernista Mansion
(
www.casabatllo.es
;
Passeig de Gràcia 43; adult/student, child & senior €17.80/14.25;
9am-8pm; Passeig de Gràcia)
If La Sagrada Família is his master symphony,
then Casa Batlló is Gaudí's whimsical waltz. The facade, sprinkled with bits of blue,
mauve and green tiles, and studded with wave-shaped window frames and bal-
conies, rises to an uneven blue-tiled roof with a solitary tower. The roof represents
Sant Jordi (St George) and the dragon, and if you stare long enough at the building,
it almost seems like a living being. Inside the main salon overlooking Passeig de
Gràcia everything swirls. The ceiling is twisted into a vortex around a sun-like lamp.
The doors, windows and skylights are dreamy waves of wood and coloured glass.
The same themes continue in the other rooms and covered terrace. The roof, with
its twisting chimney pots, is equally astonishing, and provides a chance for a close-
up look at the St George-and-the-dragon motif that dominates the view from the
street.
LA PEDRERA
Modernista Mansion
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