Watch Antoni Gaudí’s Unfinished Masterpiece, the Sagrada Família, Get Finally Completed in 60 Seconds

In 1883, Antoni Gaudí, the great Cata­lan archi­tect, began work­ing on his mag­num opus, the Sagra­da Família, the church that has become one of the most pop­u­lar tourist attrac­tions in Barcelona. Before his death in 1925, Gaudí man­aged to com­plete the crypt, apse and part of the Nativ­i­ty facade. Work on the basil­i­ca slowed dur­ing the 1930s and 40s, espe­cial­ly dur­ing the Span­ish Civ­il War, but picked up again in the 1950s. A series of archi­tects car­ried on Gaudí’s work, com­plet­ing new tow­ers and facades. In 2000, the cen­tral nave vault­ing was com­plet­ed, and, since then, mod­ern tech­nol­o­gy has put archi­tects on track to com­plete the church decades ahead of sched­ule. The new tar­get date is 2026 — the cen­te­nary of Gaudí’s death. Thanks to a com­put­er-gen­er­at­ed video released by the Sagra­da Famil­ia Foun­da­tion, you can see what the basil­i­ca, almost 150 years in the mak­ing, will look like when it’s all done. You can also take a vir­tu­al tour of the inte­ri­or of the UNESCO land­mark here.

via Slate

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