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I hope you are all well, well today I want to introduce a little more in Barcelona and I will talk most visited monument in Barcelona, the most famous l that everyone should visit once in your life, today I will speak of the Sagrada Familia , the unfinished work of Antonio Gaudi's most impressive.
Well let's start the Sagrada familia began to build in 1882 but not until 1883 when Gaudí assumed the project, since the work was going to be a neo-Gothic style, but to take on the project Gaudí change all levels of design, I have to Gaudí said that the project began with just 31 years and in the last years of his life were devoted exclusively to the temple, is the last years of his life he was living in the temple. Gaudí I call the temple the temple of the poor as it was made with private donations and is still so, but imagine that donations are of very poor people because if it had been impossible to do this project, now you can visit the temple to pay an input, different rates will leave a link where they can check the rates, I'm going to give you some advice before visiting the temple and who purchase early entry, as the queues are usually very long, can buy them online or if you are in Barcelona can do it directly from an ATM with your card, that way you do not have long lines, there is a special entry in the facade of passion where they can access early entry is my humble advice if you want to be me case, or if they remembered me when fence to visit the temple ..... jejejjej, well on with the story.
When the temple this term, will have 18 towers, four in each of the three facades, facades are dedicated to the passion of Christ, (Nativity, Passion and Glory) and as central dome mode have a system of six towers with a central tower dedicated to Jesus about 170 feet high, four dedicated to the evangelists and one on the Virgin ..
In 1926, the death of Gaudí, only had built a tower. Building project plans and retained only a model in plaster that was badly damaged during the Civil War. However, since then have continued without interruption works: currently finished the portals of nativity and Passion, and has started the Gloria, it has covered the entire interior space, and laid the foundations of the six central towers.
The work he did Gaudí, ie the Nativity façade and crypt, was included in 2005 by UNESCO in the World Heritage Site of humanity. The temple was consecrated and declared a minor basilica on November 7, 2010 by the late Pope Benedict XVI.
The portico of nativity is based on the birth of Jesus and its decor is inspired by nature, the important points of the portico are in the middle where a sample of the nativity of Jesus with angels with a trumpet announcing the coming of the Messiah and the birth top is a tree of life that is a cypress and symbolizes eternal life, the nativity portico divided into three major parts, the first is the Portico of charity, the second Portico of hope and faith third porch.
Portico of Charity:
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is the largest of the three, and is dedicated to Jesus. Pretending to be the
Portal de Belén, develops a series of scenes about the birth of Jesus: the
Annunciation and the Coronation of Mary, with the Adoration of the Magi and the
Adoration of the Shepherds, the latter work of Ros i Bofarull (1981 - 1982). We
also found the star of Bethlehem and the signs of the Zodiac, willing as they
were the night Jesus was born, angels and musicians-classical instruments
(harp, bassoon and violin) and popular (guitar, tambourine and bagpipe) - the
lamb as symbol of innocence, the dog as a symbol of fidelity and rosary beads
59 surrounding the window. On the lintel of the door is the inscription Gloria
in excelsis Deo et in terra pax bonae hominibus voluntatis.
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Jesus Gate pillar highlights the great tree of Joseph, the genealogy of Christ,
at its base is the snake biting the apple, symbol of original sin, and the
capital is situated Birth group by Jaume Busquets (1958). Children's Choir of
angels was destroyed in the Civil War, has been made again by Etsuro Sotoo. The
angels hold an inscription that says: Jesus est natus. Venite, adoremus, before
whose message the birds are the footboard, as traditional Catalan Carol
Birdsong (The Song of the Birds).
The
porch culminates in the Tree of Life, representing the triumph of the life and
legacy of Jesus. Here we find the symbol of Jesus with the letters JHS (of
Jesuchristus, or Jesus Hominum Salvator, Jesus Savior of Mankind), in a Greek
cross, with the Greek letters alpha and omega, as a symbol of the beginning and
the end. It is surrounded by angels and angels bearing censers of bread and
wine, symbol of the Eucharist. About the anagram found a pelican, primitive
Christian symbol representing equally the Eucharist, with an egg symbol of
origin and the fullness of life and nature. Upstream are two staircases
ascending to God, and a cypress tree symbolizes eternal life, with a group of
pigeons that represent the faithful who come to God. Finally, we find a
representation of the Holy Trinity, with the Greek letter tau, of the name of
the Greek God (Theos), the X of Jesus (by the Greek letter chi, initial of
Christ in Greek) and the dove of the Holy Ghost.
Portico of Hope
Dedicated to San Jose, we found the scenes of the Betrothal of the Virgin Mary and St. Joseph, the Family of Jesus (with San Joaquin and Santa Ana), The sage and baby Jesus (Jesus has in hand a dead pigeon, symbol humility), Death of the Innocents, the Flight into Egypt and St. Joseph's boat, in which Joseph is the helmsman who leads the Catholic Church the face of Joseph corresponds to that of the Gaudí, in honor of workers temple after his death. We can also observe the placement of various tools (a saw, a hammer, a chisel, a square, a screwdriver, a hammer, an ax), domestic animals like geese, geese and ducks as an allusion to the Nile wildlife and plants Egypt The portico is topped by a large pinnacle similar to the rocks of Montserrat (specifically the Cavall Bernat) latinaSalva
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Portico of the Faith
Dedicated to the Virgin Mary, we see the following scenes: the Immaculate Conception, in which the Virgin on a three-arm lamp, in reference to the Holy Trinity, the Visitation, Our Lady visits her cousin Elizabeth, The Presentation of Jesus in the temple, where the Child Jesus appears in the arms of the priest Simeon and his side, appears the prophetess Anna, who recognizes Jesus as the Messiah, Jesus worked as a carpenter, and Jesus preaching in the temple, between the figures of San Juan Bautista and San Zaccaria. We also found the Heart of Jesus, covered with thorns and mystical bees foraging on their blood Divine providence, in the form of hand with all seeing eye, grapes and ears as a symbol of the Eucharist, and Flora of Palestine, preferably palm leaves, a symbol of martyrdom.
Passion Facade
The Passion façade was begun in 1954 according to the drawings and explanations that Gaudí had left. The towers were finished in 1976, and has since worked on the sculptural decoration. Gaudí designed this façade during convalescence from fevers Puigcerdà Malta in 1911. Dedicated to the Passion of Jesus is intended to reflect the suffering of Christ in his crucifixion, as redemption of the sins of man. Therefore devised a more austere facade and simplified without ornamentation, which stand out the nakedness of the stone, which semejase a skeleton reduced to the simple lines of his bones. Only include the sculptures of Jesus' passion cycle, by Jose Maria Subirachs, he devised a simple and schematic set with angular shapes that cause a dramatic effect. Subirachs produced his work between 1987 and 2009.
Gaudí himself described his conception of the Passion facade as follows:
Someone find this door too extravagant, but I want to do fear, and to get spare no chiaroscuro, incoming and outgoing motives, everything becomes more gloomy effect. Moreover, I am willing to sacrifice the same construction, arches and cut break columns to give the bloody idea of Sacrifice.
Facade of Glory
The Glory façade will be the largest and monumental. It is the main facade, which gives access to the nave. Work began in 2002. Dedicated to the Celestial Glory of Jesus, represents the upward path to God: Death, Final Judgment and Glory and Hell, for anyone who deviates from the dictates of God. Gaudí only sketched the outlines of this facade, as it was aware that he would not make it in life, but those who continued his work:
The model fragment of the towers of the facade will complete or not develop it. I decided to leave it just another generation scheduled to collaborate in the temple, as repeatedly seen in the history of the cathedral, whose facades are not only of other authors, but also of other styles.
Well I hope you enjoyed this article and beyond mean that we do not know exactly when it will finish the temple, I heard that for 2018 is believed to be over, but I sincerely doubt it ......I leave one video of day of his inaguaración. .
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