People visit the roof of Antoni Gaudí's building La Pedrera or Casa Mila in Barcelona, Spain (photo by David Ramos/Getty Images) Answering the prayers of many after over 30 years, Pope Francis has ...
Gaudí created the landmarks that now draw millions of tourists to Barcelona, which will not see the Sagrada Família completed ...
"Color in architecture must be intense, logical and fertile," Gaudí wrote in the late 1870s. He enlivened the facade of his Casa Batllà³ with scalelike roof tiles meant to evoke a dragon's back, ...
Exactly one hundred years since the architect’s death, Pope Leo XIV visited the iconic basilica to celebrate a Mass and inaugurate the tower which makes the church the tallest in the world.
This view of Barcelona's Sagrada Familia taken last week shows the newly revealed cross that completes the temple's main Tower of Jesus Christ. Thomas Coex/AFP via Getty Images One hundred years ago, ...
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis advanced the sainthood causes of one woman and five men, including Antoni Gaudí, the Spanish architect who designed the Sagrada Familia Basilica in Barcelona, Spain.
The anniversary is a familiar one. At around six in the evening on 7 June 1926, Antoni Gaudí i Cornet, God’s architect, was on his way to his daily mass in Plaça de Sant Felip Neri: a hidden nook in ...
The episode is well known. At around six in the evening on 7 June 1926, Antoni Gaudí i Cornet was on his way to his daily mass in Plaça de Sant Felip Neri, a tucked-away corner in the heart of ...