La Sagrada Familia - Exterior

[Stan]

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As for roads - the easy answer is lack of use, theres times when I'm driving around and I'm the only car on the road

one of the things I love about foreign holidays, apart from the weather, is the roads, whether it is Spain, Menorca, Portugal, Turkey, Lanzarote ( all visits over the past 3 years), the roads are always first class and even in the "rush hour" there is little traffic about

Stan

[Tigger]

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one of the things I love about foreign holidays, apart from the weather, is the roads, whether it is Spain, Menorca, Portugal, Turkey, Lanzarote ( all visits over the past 3 years), the roads are always first class and even in the "rush hour" there is little traffic about

Stan

Its one of the reasons I'm starting to enjoy driving again - When I lived in the UK I did everything possible to not drive, where as here a 5hr drive, no problem .

[AlexR!]

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A couple of you have mentioned the towers here. We are visiting Barcelona in a couple of weeks and I'm about to book my Sagrada Familia entrance tickets (everyone says that this beats the queue). I want to do one of the towers, but need to choose which. Given a choice I'm more interested in views of the cathedral than the city, so does anyone have a recommendation, the Passion or the Nativity?

[Parsen66]

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What a crazy and interesting building. Not sure I'm a fan of it, almost looks as though it could be in Vegas! You've captured it well though Scott

[Tigger]

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still not got there yet Alex and its only a 4hr drive from here ...hopefully next year

looking forward to seeing what you manage to pull from there as its not the easiest building to photograph due to the size, crowds and lack of clear view to all the building...plus its still being built - only taken 100 yrs so far and another 20 to go I think ?? and the y say Spain has no money, oh I forget its the churches money and being Catholic they have endless funds grrrrrr

Not sure I'm a fan of it, almost looks as though it could be in Vegas!

agree, but its still something you need to see, but give me an old medieval church any day

[paulr5604]

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A nice set of images of an amazing building

[Dave_S]

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Nice shots Scott. I especially like No.1.

I wonder if they will finish it before the DFS sale ends.

Dave

[lunarbo]

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Like everyone else I was kind of sceptical of this building that looks like an illustration from my old Enid Blyton "Book of Fairies" from childhood.

However the inside of La Sagrada is one of the most jaw-dropping sights I've ever seen and I defy anyone not to be moved. Interesting that the video says it will be finished 2026- still looks like a lot of work to be done!

Alex- definately beat the Q's and get entrance tickets online before you go.
I also did a tower- can't remember which one it was but I don't think it will matter that much. Up a spiral staircase to a narrow isthmus where you can see the scale of the upwards work still to be done and get a close up of a tower. Also snap the city- might as well!-Then across to another spiral staircase down, just a glimpse of the inside of the cathedral from one window on the way down. I booked a tower ticket online beforehand,& they hold you to that time rigidly.
I have a crop camera with 18-200 for travelling, but wished I'd been here with FF. It's massive inside and quite inspirational on all sorts of levels.

Scott- Thanks for sharing these with us.

[Sarawak]

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There are lifts that take you most of the way up a couple of the towers. You have to get tickets, though they are cheap. You can get really close up to the pointy bits, and there are windows that you can poke your camera out of.
As lunarbo says the inside is almost more impressive that the outside.
There are drawings in the crypt which are Gaudi's original atwork. You would be hard preseed to tell on a blind testing if they were by Gaudi, Dali or Picasso. How anyone could think of those designs is almost impossible to work out. A mind that is on a different level to us mere mortals.
I only wish I could go back soon, but it's unlikely.

[Redgrape]

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I did think the inside was as lunarbo said is 'jaw dropping.' I did take some photos but only with my ixus 500 (didn't have a dslr then) but I have found a few images of the inside & will post them in the compact camera section if anyone wants too look.

Sue

[tesarver]

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Very nice set Scott

Tom

[AlexR!]

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Bo, Sara, Sue, thanks for the suggestions and pictures. I've just booked our entrance tickets with access to the towers on the 'Nativity' facade. The other facade ('Passion') is slightly higher, is on the SW side (and so faces the city) and has a lift down as well as up, so on the face of it appears a better choice. But the Nativity facade was mostly finished in Gaudi's lifetime and therefore considered more representative of his imagination, and I'm hoping that the other things mean that it is the quieter of the two. I want to walk down, anyway, in order to catch detail on the way. I think my wife is happy with the choice...
Really looking forward to our trip now, but I am somewhat worried that my photographic skills will not be up to the task of adequately representing what is there as it is so vast, lighting will be a challenge, as will crowds and the clutter of the ongoing building works. You will get to see how well I succeeded later in June.

[lunarbo]

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Alex- don't think you need to worry about your photographic skills!! More than adequate I'd say.

As for lighting it's not gloomy inside and I checked some of my stuff- middle of day in December I was on maximum of 800 ISO.

Crowds- yes but it's massive inside, I didn't find other people a problem, the usual maybe -wait a moment for some other chap to take his shot and move on.

Building works, well it's work in progress after all!

[Cyberman]

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Nicely done, I especially like the first one.

[anderson.council]

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Thanks folks didn't realise you had been commenting on this recently.