Sagrada Família. Inside and out. AMAZING!!! – Barcelona Spain – ECTV

Sagrada Família. Inside and out. AMAZING!!! – Barcelona Spain – ECTV

Hey everybody, this is Eric Clark’s Travel Videos and I’m in Barcelona, Spain and I’m at Sigraa Familia and it is absolutely amazing and I’m going to take you inside. I got my ticket. I’ll take you inside and show you around and we’ll do it together. How’s that? Let’s do it. All right, let me turn the camera around and just show you the outside of it. Oh my gosh. And this is the entrance side. And I’ll show you the back side, too. But, uh, it certainly is amazing. And it’s not even finished yet. Wow. Wow. Okay, I’ll be back. Bye-bye. All right, everybody. I’m inside now and here is the front of the cigar familia and it certainly is amazing. And they’re still doing construction on it. You can see the cement swinging up there. Yeah. Scary. But this is the front. Thank you. Pretty amazing. Let’s go inside. It’s kind of raining out here. I just wanted to bring up the turtles. I love the turtles. I point them out every time I come here. So, the turtles hold up the whole building essentially. These huge columns that go up and support the whole front of the building. It’s held up by these uh two turtles, one on each side, and they’re pretty amazing. So, one of the things I wanted to point out to you is, do you see on this side, all the people are smooth? Mother Mary there with Jesus in her arms and the donkey. It’s smooth. On the other side, everybody is um square or blocked or you know, and I’ll show you that side, too. But everything on this side is smooth and rounded and nice and gentle and easy, you know? Look at all the art. I mean, look at all the figures. I mean, it’s pretty amazing. But when you go to the other side, it is absolutely not that way. You know what? I think I’ll go straight through the whole church and show you the other side so you can see it. Again, they’re smooth. They’re even. Even the people with the violin and the guitar and the flute up on top and the people here and woring mother or baby Jesus. Do you understand what I mean by smooth? They’re rounded the harp. I mean, it’s pretty amazing. Okay, so I’m going to run to the other side and show you the other side. There’s the other turtle, by the way. You can see the turtle holds up everything. Same thing. Let me I might as well show you this side, too. Amazing. Even the chickens and uh Yeah, pretty crazy. Okay, let’s go to the other side and take a look and you can see what I’m talking about. Here we go. All right, everybody. So, I showed you the front side and how you enter and how nice it is and how smooth and everything is perfect. The sculptures are perfect. The people are perfect. They’re rounded. They’re they’re they’re wonderful on the back side. So, this is where you exit at. On the back side, everything is different. Everything are these blocked figurines, these strange um unique. I mean, look at his hands. His hand is a square. It’s not His face is a square. His His B Look at his hair. His head is flat. His shoulders are flat. It’s uh it’s it’s it’s just totally different. The horse up there, it is it’s it’s a square horse. It’s not uh a normal nice rounded horse. Everything, even Jesus on the cross up there, he’s a square Jesus. He’s He’s It’s It’s like you you go in nice on one side and you come out um not nice on the other side. You come out square. I I I don’t know his symbolism. I mean, even the doors are different. Look at the doors. They’re square people. They’re It’s just It’s just unique. And I’m sure somebody’s going to explain this to me. And here there’s Bible verses. And then there’s these puzzles. What is that? 114 14 11 6 9 8 10 10 5 13 2 315 I don’t know. And then the snake is here too. And even this is must have been the place where they beat Jesus. The what’s that stone called? And they tied him to it and then they beat him. But he’s square here too. His hands are square. His feet are square. The rope’s not square. The rope’s like a normal rope. But everything about Jesus, his calf, it’s not even rounded. Everything isn’t rounded. His back is square. It’s all It’s all just very different. Yeah, totally different. And what does that symbol represent? And then the face. So I don’t know if you get to see the face. Do you see right here on that shield almost his face is instead of being outside, his face is like pushed in it, you know? So the difference between the front and the back is catastrophically different. It’s not even It’s not even close. Another thing, too, is this side is all smooth and kind of It’s not smooth, but the other side is so ornate and has so many little bumps and things sticking out of it that it uh but this side is almost smoother. I don’t know. And the doors, too. More of the figures on the door. And the figures. I mean, those are some scary figures. You know what I mean? So, I don’t know if this is maybe the other side. Oh, here’s a thought for you. The other side had baby Jesus, right? So, baby Jesus, everything on that side was smooth and nice and perfect, and they were worshiping baby Jesus. And the mom was holding baby Mary was holding baby Jesus. And then afterwards, this is where he’s crucified at. This is where they beat him on the on the pole at. And so everything on this side is twisted. It’s wrong. We’ve crossed over maybe. So as you go from one side of the church to the other side of the church, you get um you get a a wrong thing. It it’s this is all the bad side of of it all. I don’t know into the mind of Gaudy. You can’t even start to go there, can you? I mean I I don’t know. It’s just crazy. but it’s uh you know certainly different. Yeah. And I’m thinking these are all Bible verses. Is that Matthew 27:24? I don’t know. And the guard and the actually receded into the stone. Yeah, drastically different. Rewind the video and go look at the front side and you’ll understand immediately the differences. And I’ll end this with a if I can zoom in enough here. I’ll leave you with Jesus hanging on the cross. And that’s another thing. The cross, if you notice, it’s not an up and down cross. It’s like laying flat and his arms are out. It’s like it’s not it’s like his back isn’t on it. It’s he’s like free forming on the cross like like gravity. So if you laid a cross on a on a roof and had it sticking out and then put his arms up there, just totally different, totally unique, totally. And this person here in the front, he has no face. Do you see that? So, it’s got a face of Jesus indented into the cement or the stone. And that person has no face. There’s a skeleton up there, too. Yeah. I don’t know, everybody. I’m just pointing out what I see. Bye, everybody. All right, everybody. I’m going in the back door and you can see the inside of the church. Amazing. Those stained glasses are amazing. And just so you notice, so like up here on this tower, there’s that little round orb thing with a little image in it. Each one of these things has different images. So like on that side there’s like a a horse with it wings up and then here’s another one that’s green. And so they’re all different kind of pictures. Let me see. and the stained glass. This is kind of a green one and then it turns to like a yellow one. And then it slides to more orang-ish and then over to red. And look at the stairs. See the spiral staircase right here? All the way to the top. Yeah, it was a Anyway, then it gets to a deep red over here. Then this side changes. This side goes from a deep deep deep dark blue to a little bit lighter blue to like a green teal kind of thing. And then this one goes to full green and then it starts transitioning into yellow. Yeah. Amazing. Let me show you the I know. I’m sorry I’m painting fast. Bear with me. Let me get to the middle here. I think this square Amazing. We go right down the middle, too. Do you see how they’re different? Like that one looks like a lion. That one looks like a sheep with wings. A lion with wings. Sorry. Nice. This is pretty amazing. Wow. Let’s go around the other side or around the back side. How’s that sound? T-shirt. You Each one of these little chapels are different color stained glass. Excuse me. Oh, okay. And then down below this is the chapel. Like if you want to pray, you can see way way down there. Probably three or four flights, maybe five flights are uh where you can pray. And there’s no filming down there, I don’t think. Wow. Let’s go around to the other side and go that far. And then Now, I just noticed something else. Okay, Eric, do you see this side? This is the front side. Remember where the smooth sculptures are on the outside? Look at the bricks. You see how the brick work is all different? It’s all like this is all like squared. And uh you know, I mean, look at this one side of it. Let me get over here and you can see the whoever that is up there. I mean, he’s standing there. He’s like a regular sculpting, but the brick work is brick work, right? So, you see all that, right? And the balconies are rounded. Balconies are rounded. Squared up there. Squared. And then it gets up there and has pillars and everything else. Even the top part is that way. Look at this side. It’s not like that. It’s different. It’s um it’s very not as ornate, not as pretty. It’s like it’s flat. You see it over here? This the side that I’m talking about. Huh. I’ll go show you that in a second. Let’s finish going around the building here and more stairs. Here’s another view of the down part. just from the other side. You see, I was witnessing and the shrouded tin where I’ve seen the original of that. And you can see his head over there. Okay, let’s go this way. I guess that downstairs area is the crypt. So, let me show you this one more time before we head over there. Look at the steps and the fluting and the all that stuff and the tear tiled blocks and it’s all kind of that way, right? You get it with glass and everything else. Now, let’s go to the other side and see if you notice the difference. surprised they let her in. And even this side is different than that side. This side is the part that holds the mirrors or or the stained glass. They all have stained glass, but this side is different than that side. Anyway, let’s go over here and look. Here’s when I can go through the I don’t want to interrupt anybody. So now look at this side. It’s not the same. It’s different. They got metal railings, not protruding blocks, not stacked blocks, not any of those things. Huh. Interesting. I guess the stained glass part is pretty close to the same. It’s close. It’s huge though. Wow. All right, everybody. I’m sure I’ll be back. Amazing. I think one of the if not number one the top two or top three churches in the whole world. Simply incredible. Bye everybody. Hi everybody. To get to the museum part of this, you have to come out and go towards the left side. So if that’s the the front and the columns, you come this way and this will get you down here to the museum side. And I think that is somewhere in here. I think the guy said it’s down here. Uh there’s the bathrooms. Oh, exit through the shop. I don’t want to exit. Huh. This ain’t right. I’ll be back. Okay. So, this says bathrooms. So, but I went back up and asked and they said, “No, the museum’s down here.” So, I came in here and it’s just the bathrooms. But if you ask this guy, he says this is the museum side. And so there’s no signs, there’s no markings, there’s no anything. Um, you just have to pretty much ask for it or know what to look for um for the museum. And this is when the pope visited, which is pretty amazing. Wow. Can you imagine? I cannot. Wow. And there’s a lot more pictures of it, too. Wow. Oh, and how they built the columns maybe. Huh? I don’t know. Is there English here? The glory facade explains the main facade of the temple. Explains the further history of humanity from our man through the final judgment of Jesus. Wow. Glory and light. Light gives joy and joy is the happiness of the spirit. The temple of the family must be a symbol of faith in the whole people of the areas. Oh, so each one of these little stones or lights have a different saying or something. Stained glass windows of sanctuaries and saints from all continents. I see. So Monserat Africa. Okay. Huh. Wow. So on the door, this is the door. People will come from all over to see the cigar familia main door with the Lord’s prayer of the glory facade. I know the personal taste of the architect to follow this project. Um, but that doesn’t bother me. I think the temple will benefit from it. Great temples have never been the work of just one architect. Life is a battle that takes effort. Effort is sustained and fueled by cultivating spirology. Wow. Follow your cycle of the church throughout the 15 dental volumes of Dun which I read in French. Without thinking about death, there is no good in life. Wow. Read that one twice. Without thinking about death, there is no good in life. Huh? Old age is a time for atonement. Love of the truth must be above all other loves. Wow. Where is this in our world today? Love of the truth. The Saka family is a project that is in God’s hands and it will um and it will the people. He used to just sleep here on site. Gaudy died 10 June 1926 at a hospital dead of Barcelona three days after being run over by a train on his way to St. Phil measure of prayer on June 12th. A great crowd joined his funeral procession towards St. Wow. I had no idea he got ran over by the train. You got to be kidding me. Life is love and love is sacrifice. Before I was six, I started having attacks of rheumatoism which flared up again at various points in my life. This disease had a significant impact on my development as a boy. My weakness fostered my spirit of observation. I’m a fighter by nature. I fought incessantly and I’ve beat all but one thing. controlling my bad temper. I know that one. Humble people have made huge contributions to great things. No one is useless. You just have to discover what they’re good at. Anything other than looking out for people all of all sorts. It just hot air. Wow. Okay. Huh. Okay. Here’s how he designed it. Wow. This is where he got the perfect angle for the columns and the best shape for the arches, vated, and facades. Wow. Antonio Gary covered the string model with a white sheet to help visualize the architectural shapes. How to use this project to experiment with many structural solutions he later used at the temple cigarette. That is amazing. Wow. That’s pretty incredible. Wow. I guess I’ll go this way to start. All right. Better than me. Sorry, I don’t know why it’s not Anyway, you can see here’s the first sense. And we discuss here we have this okay. always here. Um inside the towers we have uh spiral stairs and he was inspired by the snake but you can see it’s the same shape and also I think that if you look this kind of induced is uh movement that’s why this movement was used to be inspired by the We actually It’s very very Wow, there is just so much here. It’s I I think I’m just Nobody’s going to go this far. Congratulations. Hat. Happy. Heat. Heat. and the drawing for it. It’s pretty amazing. Some may find this doorway too extravagant, but I wanted it to inspire fear. And to do so, I used plenty of recession and all of which provided a gloomy effect. Huh? Amazing. I don’t need to go shopping. Okay, I’ll be back everybody if there’s more. Bye.

The Basílica i Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família,[a] otherwise known as Sagrada Família, is a church under construction in the Eixample district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It is the largest unfinished Catholic church in the world. Designed by the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí (1852–1926), in 2005 his work on Sagrada Família was added to an existing (1984) UNESCO World Heritage Site, “Works of Antoni Gaudí”.[2] On 7 November 2010, Pope Benedict XVI consecrated the church and proclaimed it a minor basilica.[3][4][5]

On 19 March 1882, construction of Sagrada Família began under architect Francisco de Paula del Villar. In 1883, when Villar resigned,[2] Gaudí took over as chief architect, transforming the project with his architectural and engineering style, combining Gothic and curvilinear Art Nouveau forms. Gaudí devoted the remainder of his life to the project, and he is buried in the church’s crypt. At the time of his death in 1926, less than a quarter of the project was complete.[6]

Relying solely on private donations, Sagrada Família’s construction progressed slowly and was interrupted by the Spanish Civil War. In July 1936, anarchists from the FAI set fire to the crypt and broke their way into the workshop, partially destroying Gaudí’s original plans.[7] In 1939, Francesc de Paula Quintana took over site management, which was able to go on with the material that was saved from Gaudí’s workshop and that was reconstructed from published plans and photographs.[8] Construction resumed with intermittent progress in the 1950s. Advancements in technologies such as computer-aided design and computerised numerical control (CNC) have since enabled faster progress, and construction passed the midpoint in 2010. In 2014, it was anticipated that the building would be completed by 2026, the centenary of Gaudí’s death,[9] but this schedule was threatened by work slowdowns caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.[10] In March 2024, an updated forecast reconfirmed a likely completion of the building in 2026, though the announcement stated that work on sculptures, decorative details and a controversial stairway leading to the main entrance is expected to continue until 2034.[11]

Describing Sagrada Família, art critic Rainer Zerbst said “it is probably impossible to find a church building anything like it in the entire history of art”,[12] and Paul Goldberger describes it as “the most extraordinary personal interpretation of Gothic architecture since the Middle Ages”.[13]

Though sometimes described as a cathedral, the basilica is not the cathedral church of the Archdiocese of Barcelona; that title belongs to the Cathedral of the Holy Cross and Saint Eulalia (Barcelona Cathedral).[14]

History
Sagrada Família was inspired by a bookseller, José María Bocabella, founder of Asociación Espiritual de Devotos de San José (Spiritual Association of Devotees of St. Joseph). After a visit to the Vatican in 1872, Bocabella returned from Italy with the intention of building a church inspired by the basilica at Loreto. The apse crypt of the church, funded by donations, was begun on 19 March 1882, on the festival of St. Joseph, to the design of the architect Francisco de Paula del Villar, whose plan was for a Gothic revival church of a standard form. The apse crypt was completed before Villar’s resignation on 18 March 1883, when Antoni Gaudí assumed responsibility for its design, which he changed radically.[15] Gaudí began work on the church in 1883 but was not appointed Architect Director until 1884.[citation needed]

Painting. Close to the viewer there is an asymmetrical beggar with a crutch sitting on the floor and looking to the viewer. To the right, a mother with two children sits. Behind them, there are other figures and sunlit blocks of white stone. In the background, the unfinished cathedral.
The Cathedral of the Paupers, by Joaquim Mir, 1898
20th century
On the subject of the extremely long construction period, Gaudí is said to have remarked: “My client is not in a hurry.”[16] When Gaudí died in 1926, the basilica was between 15 and 25 percent complete.[6][17] After Gaudí’s death, work continued under the direction of his main disciple Domènec Sugrañes i Gras until interrupted by the Spanish Civil War in 1936. Parts of the unfinished basilica and Gaudí’s models and workshop were destroyed during the war. The present design is based on reconstructed versions of the plans that were burned in a fire as well as on modern adaptations.[11] Since 1940, the architects Francesc Quintana, Isidre Puig Boada, Lluís Bonet i Garí and Francesc Cardoner…..

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