Barcelona day 1

Finished our cruise and now 3 days in Barcelona...the church Sagrada familia by guadi was amazing...he died after being hit by a tram...the whole outside was a shell...only in about 1990 did the inside and stained glass windows...he wanted the sun to bring colour inside.
Everything has a story or meaning...52 columns, 7.5metres apart and 7.5m shy of their famous mountain=hill. Certain things weigh 7.5 kg etc. The outside has so many names and stories...one was Jesus with a hammer to depict that he was also a worker...his dad was carpenter from my memory.
They want to build more and nothing is finished...it is always ongoing...they want to buy apartments across the street but owners are holding out for best price knowing church has lots of money.
Just Craig and I went up lift of one of the columns and walked down...so narrow between walls and last section we went off main line and went down the open stairwell that looked like a seashell.Read more