Barcelona Apr 1-6 : Gaudi Tour Part 3 Outside

Sagrada Familia was started by Gaudi, but he knew he wasn't going to finish it because of his age. He made sure that the molds and plans were left so others may finish his church for the sinners. Unfortunately, the Atheist took over Barcelona at one time and wanted to destroy all the churches. They wanted to destroy this one, but the bridge between the four towers which represent the bishops saved this church. So instead they destroyed Gaudi's workshop with all the plans and molds. Since then they have slowly found and put together molds and lost plans to give them an idea of what the church was originally going to look like, but the reason it is taking so long is because they can't figure out how to put in together. Gaudi was way beyond his time and even ours in constructing new ways of putting buildings together to create this and that kind of shape. In the next post I will show you how he created columns inside Sagrada Familia.

Let's look around the outside first. The original parts from Gaudi are still there. This church will show the different aesthetics due to the number of years this church has taken to be rebuilt and still continues today and for the next 30 years.

Of course have to show myself in front of it. Yep, I was there too. This was the original side that Gaudi worked on.


It shows the Nativity scene with the Christmas tree in the middle of the four bishops (which are the towers).


Closer view, but you can see the four bishops and the Christmas tree and so on.


Gaudi used real people to help depict these sculptures.


Closer look at the Virgin Mary and Joesph(?) on a donkey going to the manger. As the tour guide stated the man in real life had 6 toes so Gaudi included that into the statue.


This one has some story to it, can't remember. The babies you see are still born babies that Gaudi got from the morgue to use as models in this scene.

Now the other side of the building is newer and slightly weirder for me, but everyone has their own way of depicting their our aesthetic.

It took awhile for the builders on this side of the building to figure out the columns because none are straight up and down. I do like the columns.


This is were you enter hence a lot of people.


This is the art I was telling you, I reminds me of Star Wars with the bad guys in white plastic outfits.


A closer look.

Next blog will be in the inside.