Sagrada Familia is the modernist cathedral designed by (mostly) Antoni Gaudi, worked on for the last forty-some years prior to his death in 1926, and then haphazardly developed over the century following by the city of Barcelona. This would've been easier were it not for the destruction of most of Gaudi's models, plans and drawings for the cathedral during the Spanish Civil War.
But while the place is unfinished, incomplete it's more impressive than most finished buildings. And it's got to be seen to be believed. As another tourist I heard said, "I'd go to church if my church looked like that."
And I can certainly say that it's a site of miracles. The niece does not do heights, but I was able to talk her into going up in the Nativity Towers with me anyway. You take an elevator up the right hand front tower, go up another couple flights of stairs, then cross the external bridge to the left hand tower and go down the circular stairs. About half way down, the inner wall of the stairs disappears and you get a very open feeling as you descend the remaining floors down. At time she looked like Spiderman, glued to the external wall, but the niece made it up, and down, so props to her -- and the Sagrada Familia for inspiring her to do it.
The pictures don't do the place justice, but I'm posting a few anyway.
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