Gaudi

We spent the day visiting several of the amazing buildings designed by Gaudi. No way to show them in a picture or a painting, but here they are. The Sagrada Familia (a Catholic church) is due to be finished in 25 years. It was started in the late 1800´s. 8 of the 14 spires are finished. Those pictured here are for 8 of the 12 apostles. The four that wrote gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke and John) get taller spires. Mary gets the next tallest and finally Jesus himself gets one twice as tall as those here. The inside posts are made to look like trees, all out of a different stone and with a different symbolism for the stone chosen. The east side of the cross (Catholic churches being built in the shape of a cross) shows the beginning of the life of Christ and is much perkier than the west side which shows the Passion, the end of his life. As you can imagine, the west side is very dark and violent. The whole thing was phenomenally beautiful. No way to do it justice. The other building here pictured here is whimsical and colorful and so different from most architecture. Am loving it all. Haven´t made it to Parc Guell yet, but I can´t wait.