The Sagrada Familia: The Astonishing Story of Gaudí’s Unfinished Masterpiece

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An illuminating biography of probably the most famous–and most famously unfinished–buildings on this planet, the Sagrada Familia of Barcelona.

The scaffolding-cloaked spires of Antoni Gaudí’s masterpiece, the Sagrada Familia, dominate the Barcelona skyline and draw in millions of visitors yearly. More than a century after the primary stone used to be laid in 1882, the Sagrada Familia remains unfinished, a testament to Gaudí’s quixotic ambition, his religious devotion, and the sensuous eccentricity of his design. It has defied the critics, the penny-pinching accountants, the conservative town-planners, and the devotees of sterile modernism. It has enchanted and frustrated the citizens of Barcelona. And it has passed during the landmark changes of twentieth-century Spain, surviving two World Wars, the ravages of the Spanish Civil War, and the “Hunger Years” of Franco’s rule.

Gijs van Hensbergen’s The Sagrada Familia explores the evolution of this remarkable building, working during the decades right as much as the present day before having a look beyond to the final stretch of its construction. Wealthy in detail and vast in scope, it is a revelatory chronicle of an iconic structure, its place in history, and the wild genius that created it.

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