{"id":14562,"date":"2011-08-19T00:01:28","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T07:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/?p=14562"},"modified":"2011-10-04T21:06:42","modified_gmt":"2011-10-05T04:06:42","slug":"la-sagrada-familia-in-barcelona-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/14562","title":{"rendered":"La Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The single sight that no tourist can miss in Barcelona, Spain is the Basilica and Expiatory Church of the Holy Family, better known as La Sagrada Familia .\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Begun in 1882, the church was originally intended to be a traditional Gothic structure designed\u00c2\u00a0by Francisco de Paula del Villar .\u00a0 Antoni Gaudi assumed responsibility for the project in 1883 and changed the design to an Art Nouveau style .\u00a0 The Passion Facade of the Basilica faces the setting sun and\u00c2\u00a0is decorated with scenes from the Passion of Christ .\u00a0 Completed after Gaudi&#8217;s death, the sculptures on the Passion Facade were constructed by a team of sculptors headed by Josep Maria Subirachs in angular forms that are quite different from the style of Gaudi.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/La-Sagrada-Familia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14563\" title=\"La Sagrada Familia\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/La-Sagrada-Familia.jpg\" alt=\"La Sagrada Familia\" width=\"420\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/La-Sagrada-Familia.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/La-Sagrada-Familia-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/La-Sagrada-Familia-682x1024.jpg 682w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>La Sagrada Familia<\/em><\/p>\n<p>SOURCE:\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0La Sagrada Familia (Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 04 August 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/La-Sagrada-Familia-Distance.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14564\" title=\"La Sagrada Familia from a Distance\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/La-Sagrada-Familia-Distance.jpg\" alt=\"La Sagrada Familia from a Distance\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/La-Sagrada-Familia-Distance.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/La-Sagrada-Familia-Distance-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/La-Sagrada-Familia-Distance-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>La\u00c2\u00a0Sagrada Familia from a Distance<\/em><\/p>\n<p>SOURCE:\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0La Sagrada Familia from a Distance\u00c2\u00a0(Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 04 August 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/The-Way-of-the-Cross.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14565\" title=\"Calvary\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/The-Way-of-the-Cross.jpg\" alt=\"Calvary\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/The-Way-of-the-Cross.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/The-Way-of-the-Cross-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/The-Way-of-the-Cross-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Calvary<\/em><\/p>\n<p>SOURCE:\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Calvary (Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 04 August 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/The-Crucifixion.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14566\" title=\"The Crucifixion\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/The-Crucifixion.jpg\" alt=\"The Crucifixion\" width=\"420\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/The-Crucifixion.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/The-Crucifixion-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/The-Crucifixion-682x1024.jpg 682w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>The Crucifixion<\/em><\/p>\n<p>SOURCE:\u00a0 The\u00c2\u00a0Crucifixion (Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 04 August 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright \u00a9 2011 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The single sight that no tourist can miss in Barcelona, Spain is the Basilica and Expiatory Church of the Holy Family, better known as La Sagrada Familia .\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Begun in 1882, the church was originally intended to be a traditional Gothic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/14562\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[317,311,330],"class_list":["post-14562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-journal","tag-barcelona","tag-mediterranean-vacation","tag-spain"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyBfX-3MS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14562"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14947,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14562\/revisions\/14947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}