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The Sagrada Família takes its final shape

created: Sept. 16, 2025, 12:20 a.m. | updated: Sept. 19, 2025, 3:47 p.m.

According to Puig Boada, when Gaudí started working on the Sagrada Família, he would arrive at the site each day in a carriage, wearing a short beige overcoat with large boots, and peremptorily give orders without dismounting. In 1925, Gaudí began living in his workshop at the Sagrada Família site, so that he could devote all his time to the project. “ He was always thinking about the Sagrada Família when he was walking,” Faulí told me. Even the stones cry for him.” La Vanguardia was more astringent: “The marvellous artist of the Sagrada Família has ceased to exist. Would he still be around when the Sagrada Família was truly done?

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