Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família, Spain Travel Journals & Blogs

Traveler Spain and Portugal 2023
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- Mar 22, 2023, 12:17pm
- ☀️ 63 °F
- Altitude: 157 ft
- Spain Catalonia Barcelona Sagrada Família Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família 41.403812, 2.17432241°24’14” N 2°10’28” E
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Touring Sagradra Familia
March 22, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 63 °F
The inside of the Sagrada Familia is truly breathtaking. Gaudi once said, “Nothing is invented; it’s written in nature.” His love of nature is apparent in what is known as “The Forest,” columns 560’ high that branch off at the top to resemble trees, stained glass to bring in the light makes you feel as though you’re strolling through a rainforest sanctuary. There is so much to look at and contemplate at every turn. You could spend hours and still not see it all.Read more
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Holly and Karl Baguette Bike Travels
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- Apr 6, 2023, 7:52pm
- ⛅ 17 °C
- Altitude: 45 m
- Spain Catalonia Barcelona Sagrada Família Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família 41.403513, 2.17470541°24’13” N 2°10’29” E
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Forms and Tastes of Barcelona
April 6, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C
With the help of the Hop On Hop Off bus, we covered some ground exploring the sights of the city: stunning modernist architecture, ambling and tasting our way down La Rambla and an Easter Vigil mass in Sagrada Familia, among others.Read more
Traveler Nice building!
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Traveler They finally finished Sagrada Familia!!
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Traveler Impressive architecture!
4/28/23Reply
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- Jun 1, 2023, 11:05am
- ☁️ 70 °F
- Altitude: 135 ft
- Spain Catalonia Barcelona Sagrada Família Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família 41.403333, 2.17541°24’12” N 2°10’30” E
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Day 42
Barcelona - part 2
June 1, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ☁️ 70 °F
Sagrada Familia, Park Guell - both designed by Antoni Guadi, View of Guadi's houses, Hop on Hop off bus.

The Sagrada Familia is unlike any other church/cathedral we have seen. Jeff and Jacque were here in 2012 and would visit again. It is a work in progress, started in the 1880s with completion to continue for at least several more years.

Park Güell is a failed urban housing experiment but an interesting park. Only 2 houses were built before world war 1 interrupted development.Read more
Traveler That's amazing
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Traveler Covid trip reimagined 23
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- Jun 18, 2023, 11:13am
- ☁️ 27 °C
- Altitude: 36 m
- Spain Catalonia Barcelona Sagrada Família Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família 41.403222, 2.1738241°24’12” N 2°10’26” E
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Sagrada Familia & Parc Guell.
June 18, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ☁️ 27 °C
Up bright & early to start our trip to the Sagrada Familia, etc. Eke needed a Dr last night, he arrived on a motor bike 10.45pm. There are two on each shift; it’s faster than other services and saved ED from being cluttered up! We could learn something perhaps 🤣, (if we were capable of avoiding the ‘not invented here’ syndrome). He had a full kit of Med equipment, and gave her a IM injection to get sorted quickly before Anton could get the scripts this am! I call that service!
We headed off to the Sagrada Familia which turned out to be about an hours walk. The building was amazing, outside, but especially inside. There were lots of people already lined up with appointment times when we arrived and the apse below was the size of a very large church where Mass was being held. All the while hundreds of people were viewing the ‘temple’ as they called it. After all the dark and dreary cathedrals we have visited it was bright and inviting! Still a bit of work to go on the outside. The sculptures were very lifelike - based on people Gaudli knew.
After this we walked to the Guell gardens, again designed by Gaudi. Here strange structures and buildings (many with mosaics) were the feature. We did a lot of climbing up steps and down.
We tried unsuccessfully to use an Urber to get back to the hotel, but their six passenger van wasn’t available, so we trekked a long way back, then had an adventure taking the metro! Our reward was to stay and have dinner at the hotel up on the terrace tonight. No one could face going and searching for a restaurant!Read more
Traveler More adventures. You definitely have more stamina than me. We loved our visit to Barcelona 15 years ago!
6/18/23Reply
Traveler Hi Esmee, yes, but I don’t think that the activity is keeping up with the hotel breakfasts! By the way there is ‘inappropriate’ use of pool
6/19/23Reply
Traveler Noodles going on. They seem to used around construction sites🤣
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Traveler Valued Fields of Europe
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- Jun 23, 2023, 10:40am
- ☀️ 27 °C
- Altitude: 45 m
- Spain Catalonia Barcelona Sagrada Família Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família 41.403767, 2.17467841°24’14” N 2°10’29” E
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La Sagrada Familia: Interior
June 23, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
The inside of this church instantly made it my favorite one ever. So bright, so colorful, so inviting and yet so solemn. I loved the stained glasses, and therefore spent too much money on merchandise here (hey that absolves my sins, right?). Enjoy!Read more
Traveler Hermosa y especial descripción que hace Diego
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N and K’s European Vacation
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- Jun 28, 2023, 10:00am
- ☁️ 77 °F
- Altitude: 157 ft
- Spain Catalonia Barcelona Sagrada Família Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família 41.403774, 2.1745741°24’14” N 2°10’28” E
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The rest of the day
June 28, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ☁️ 77 °F
Neal:
Not much more to add about the cathedral. Just incredible. I tried to capture the scale of the building. I really wish we could have gone up the spiral staircase!

After the Sagrada Familia, we continued uphill to the Park Güell. I’m pretty sure Walt Disney had this in mind as he designed his parks. Sangria and tapas ended a long, hot, 13 mile day of sightseeing. Pic of our route does not include the 2 mile round trip to the beach!

Tomorrow is a 10am flight to Vienna, then two days of music geekness!Read more
Traveler More WOW!!
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Traveler I never even knew this existed.
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Traveler Rob’s Rambles ‘23
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- Jun 30, 2023
- ⛅ 26 °C
- Altitude: 47 m
- Spain Catalonia Barcelona Sagrada Família Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família 41.403535, 2.17423641°24’13” N 2°10’27” E
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Sagrada Família
June 30, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C
Gaudi delivers with Sagrada Familia. The church that has taken over 100 years to build and is yet to be completed. The exterior is epic, the interior with the tall branching columns, and superb stained glass is sublime. You see SF from everywhere in Barcelona, the tall towers and massive cranes are a landmark. I had listened to the audio guide before getting to SF and went in a guided tour, and it was totally worth the money. There is so much thought and meaning in every aspect of the design and decoration.Read more
Traveler One of the wonders of the world. You are so lucky to have seen it.
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Traveler 👍👍👍
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Traveler Rob’s Rambles ‘23
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- Jun 30, 2023, 10:00pm
- ☁️ 24 °C
- Altitude: 47 m
- Spain Catalonia Barcelona Sagrada Família Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família 41.403535, 2.17423641°24’13” N 2°10’27” E
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Day 50
Sagrada Familia 2
June 30, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ☁️ 24 °C
The interior of Sagrada Familia is magnificent, but the trip up the Passion Tower and 450 steps down was a tad disappointing, mainly because it is hard to get a clear view of the towers. Construction is still underway with no definite finish date. The rear facade of the church is totally different from the front. Designed by a Japanese architect and commenced almost 100 years from the start date of the build the lines of the sculptures are clean cut. I found the story of Jesus easy to follow without embellishment.Read more
Traveler It is not what I would call an attractive building. A bit too much of everything condensed into it. Not keen.
7/1/23Reply
Traveler The interior is fantastic and when you look at the fine detail of the exterior especially all the tiny animals it is less tizzy
7/1/23Reply
Traveler I love the way some of the sculptures are part of the cathedral’s integrity. Imagine your life’s work being building the cathedral. What a privilege!
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Traveler Sommer 2023
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- Aug 2, 2023, 5:52pm
- ☀️ 31 °C
- Altitude: 38 m
- Spain Catalonia Barcelona Sagrada Família Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família 41.403983, 2.17486741°24’14” N 2°10’30” E
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Day 18
Ein ganzer Tag in Barcelona
August 2, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 31 °C
~ lecker gefrühstückt (mal was ganz neues)
~ Fortsetzung des Parkticketdebakels (s.u.)
~ Seilbahn zum Montjuic (FU Höhenangst, heute gut gemeistert)
~ lange durch die Stadt geschlendert (26700 Schritte)
~ die Sagrada Familia für weird befunden
~ fancy vegane Burger (einer mit Kaktus) zum Abendessen

Fail (sowohl nervig als auch witzig) des Tages - das Parkticket des Grauens:

~ mit dem Knöllchen in eine Bank gegangen, die auf der Rückseite als Anlaufstelle angegeben ist
~ vom (einzigen) Mitarbeiter zum ATM geschickt worden
~ dem ATM nicht verstanden und Mitarbeiter um Hilfe gebeten
~ Mitarbeiter hilft uns --> auf dem Display wird angezeigt, dass wir das Ticket dort nicht bezahlen können
~ Mitarbeiter weiß nicht weiter und schickt uns zur Polizei
~ zur Polizei gegangen und hier von einigen sehr aufmerksamen Mitarbeitenden begrüßt worden
~ fünf Polizist*innen haben ihre gesammelten Englisch-Kenntnisse eingesetzt, um unser Problem zu verstehen
~ nach Schilderung unserer Problematik den Ratschlag bekommen, das Ticket einfach nicht zu bezahlen und entspannt nach Hause zu fahren (Polizist: "Go Home!" *tut so als würde er Parkticket zerreißen* "Byebye! Enjoy!") (herrlich!!)
~ nach weiterer Schilderung (Mietauto) der Problematik erklärt bekommen, dass das Ticket nur auf Ibiza bezahlt werden kann und wir uns nochmal mit der Company in Verbindung setzen sollen oder einfach darauf warten sollen, dass der Bußgeldbescheid bei uns eintrifft (dann aber doppelt so teuer)

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Traveler Wahnsinn!
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Traveler Das sieht ja wirklich wild aus OO
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Traveler Hahahaha diese Parkticket-Geschichte klingt ganz ganz fabelhaft :D
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- Oct 19, 2023, 10:22am
- ☁️ 23 °C
- Altitude: 45 m
- Spain Catalonia Barcelona Sagrada Família Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família 41.40378, 2.17459241°24’14” N 2°10’29” E
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Day 89
Barcelona
October 19, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ☁️ 23 °C
On our day of travel it was a pretty short one. All we had to do was get on one bus to Barcelona, leaving France and entering Spain. All the underground trains were super hot for some reason too. Barcelona at first seemed really quiet and everyone seemed nice. I didn’t see one druggo which was a good start.

The next day we went to a shopping centre that used to be a bull fighting ring and we also walked and looked around a lot of the town and entered a really big food market.

On our third day we went inside Casa Batilo which was made by a guy called Gaudi and it was really cool and funky looking. In the basement of the place was this cool box that you went in to show what his mind was like. After that we went around the area looking at things and we even found a Lego store. On the underground train on the way back to our apartment, some lady thought it necessary that everyone should listen to a Ted talk speech that she presented herself. Which would probably be very educational if it wasn’t all in Spanish.

Our 4th day in Barcelona was a pretty relaxed one. We went out onto the street to have a look around a few shops. I noticed that the drivers in Barcelona have a habit of running a red light when it has the green walking person. But only when someone’s not there it’s not like they just run over everyone.

On our last day in Barcelona we went to a church called Sagrada familla which was also designed by Gaudi. It wasn’t as big as St Peters back in Rome but it definitely was more colourful. It still wasn’t a finished building, it has been worked on for over 140 years. I liked how every little part of it had its own story behind it. My favourite part of Barcelona was that it felt very safe. I liked the parks and shops surrounding our apartments too and i would definitely come back to see the finished Sagrada familla.Read more
Traveler We lovedGaudi too, just amazing. Pleased you were all safe , the streets sound dangerous, 💕 G&G
10/20/23Reply
We were intrigued by the variety of balconies on the buildings. Wondering whether you had any paella. Ann [Ann]
10/20/23Reply
Traveler 😍😍😍😍
10/20/23Reply
Traveler Fletcher enjoyed his visit to Sagrada in 2018. Gaudi’s mind simulation is interesting. I’m glad that my mind isn’t as hectic!
10/26/23Reply
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