Bordeaux and Palmiers

Antoní Gaudí was known as “God’s Architect” for his work on this masterpiece. His cathedral has taken much longer than the Spaniard’s lifetime to complete: it is still under construction today. Gaudí was famous as saying that his employer–God–wasn’t in a hurry.

In Europe, every major city boasts an aquarium and a cathedral, and in general, all cathedrals and all aquariums are fairly similar. Sure, each cathedral has something unique about it: a statue, a painting, a patron saint celebrated with a stained glass window, but the Gothic architecture tends to be fairly similar with each cathedral, and on a whirlwind tour of the major cities of Europe, very few cathedrals stand out next to another.

The Sagrada Familia is different.

Where other European cathedrals tend to recall Notre Dame and gargoyles, the Gaudi cathedral is immensely different. The detail in all of the surfaces is incredible to behold, and touring the inside to see the plans that are still underway for the completion of the cathedral makes the work that goes into building a monument such as this so much more tangible.

Each visitor to the cathedral pays an entry fee, something that is not usually requested upon visiting a religious site. However, the fee contributes to the completion of the cathedral. Every visitor becomes a patron of the arts and of the Church, and every visitor helps towards the completion of this gorgeous monument to God and to art.

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