The Sagrada Familia It is one of the most visited monuments in Spain over the last years. For example, in 2024, this work of Antoni Gaudí (1852-1926) surpassed in visits to the Alhambra de Granada or the Cathedral-Basilica of Our Lady of the Pilar in Zaragoza, which are other very famous tourist visit places not only in the Iberian Peninsula, but throughout the world.
The Holy Family is one of Gaudí's most prestigious works, who is known throughout the planet Earth for the large number of wonderful works that design throughout its long architectural career. The Catalan architect stood out for his thorough and daring innovative style And I leave all his finished works, except the Holy Family, which began to be built in 1882, but, despite this, this basilica is still in the process of construction today.
A total of more than 147 years of construction of the sacred familybut it is a figure that has a logical justification behind. María José Peñalver, dean of the College of Architects of the city of Murcia, stressed that this work of Gaudí is “unique” in the world for the innovation that the architect of Reus applied to all of his works and creations.
Peñalver himself emphasizes that Gaudí knew before starting that the construction process would be very long, but it did not matter because his architectural style I was looking to break what existed until that time: “It was not made of foundations up, as in small sheets and in a synchronized way, but also so that society did not discourage, once the foundations were started as the facades. That is not very common,” Peñalver said in an interview for the 'Summer School of Time 25'.
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In addition, the aforementioned architect explains that Antoni Gaudí, through his innovative architectural technique, wanted to show Catalan society that “something was visible” in the middle of Barcelona. Asismic, Peñalver points out that the political and socio -economic factors of the time also influenced the construction time of the Sagrada Familia, as with other cases, such as with the Milan Cathedral (the Duomo)it took about five centuries to just build: “A monument of this type is not done overnight.”
