Die Sagrada Familia in Barcelona wird zur höchsten Kirche der Welt, nachdem ein Teil ihres zentralen Turms an ihren Platz gehoben wurde
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/30/barcelona-sagrada-familia-world-tallest-church
Die Sagrada Familia in Barcelona wird zur höchsten Kirche der Welt, nachdem ein Teil ihres zentralen Turms an ihren Platz gehoben wurde
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/30/barcelona-sagrada-familia-world-tallest-church
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It’s about time.
Waste of money. Use it to help the victims of all the priests who molested children instead of this.
Never knew it was a race/competition but congrats to Sagrada
It’s pretty awesome, I wonder if they will ever finish it?
> The first stone of the Sagrada Familia was placed in 1882
I am sure god is happy with the engineers who built this and they will get a free pass to heaven.
The Spanish will not be rushed
Siesta time
The ugliest building in the world
Man they really built this thing in a hurry huh
It’s only taken this long because there’s three guys building it.
> Unlike most of the churches in Barcelona it was not damaged during the revolution — it was spared because of its ‚artistic value‘, people said. I think the Anarchists showed bad taste in not blowing it up when they had the chance.
— George Orwell, *Homage to Catalonia*
I’ve been there a couple times. I think it’s kind of gaudy and tacky. Sure some of it is impressive. But overall, it didn’t leave me with the same sense of grandeur as some older cathedrals. Also you can barely move for all the other tourists. Not an enjoyable experience.
I remember reading about this as a kid in the 90s and thinking „It can’t be that bloody hard“.
Then I saw it in person and was like „OK yeah, just one of those windows would take me a lifetime if I entirely dedicated it to learning how to craft stone windows“.
I didn’t go inside. I did try and argue that as a Catholic (I’m not) it is against God to charge entry to his house but my Spanish wasn’t up to a religious argument. Though I do strictly believe that – it is a disgrace that if you really truly believe in god and are a Catholic, that you need to pay to enter your local cathedral because of tourism.
Makes you wonder how tall the world’s tallest crane is