Sagrada Família

An expiatory basilica begun in 1882 to a neo-Gothic design by Francisco de Paula del Villar, who was replaced the following year by Antoni Gaudí. Gaudí ran the works until his death in 1926, knocked down by a tram. He designed parabolic towers, tree-like columns and mathematical geometries (paraboloids, hyperboloids) taken straight from nature. He had finished only a small part of it, and the drawings were scattered. In 2026 the outside of the central tower of Jesus Christ, the tallest of them all, was completed, but work carries on elsewhere in the building.