La Sagrada Familia stands as one of the world’s most extraordinary architectural wonders, drawing millions of visitors each year to Barcelona ... Gaudí designed the church to interact with ...

La Sagrada Familia is Barcelona’s famous unfinished ... he'd only managed to complete a quarter of the church – the Nativity façade. Gaudi had made contingency plans for his death - leaving ...

But the church wasn't always Gaudí's. The architect that was first commissioned to work on the Sagrada, Francisco de Paula del Villar, was replaced after disagreeing with its promoters.

Catalan republicans, angered by the Catholic church’s support of fascist rebel leader Generalissimo Francisco Franco, ravaged the churches of Barcelona. They sacked Gaudi’s old office in the ...