Sagrada Familia

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The Expiatory Church of the Sagrada Familia is Gaudi's undoubted masterpiece.t charts the styles the architect evolved during his career. At the cryptevel a Gothic design is used, but as the building climbs.

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towards the sky thetructure passes through an Art Nouveau stage before becoming more surrealnd fanciful, finishing in four intricately carved, open-work cone-shapedpires.;For all its apparent fantasy, however, the Sagrada Familia is rootedn structural principles (based on the parabolic arch) and an elaborateersonal symbolism. Unfinished upon the architect's accidental death in 1926,he church is currently being completed following Gaudi's plans.