The realization of that concept is the Basilica of the Sagrada Familia, Barcelona’s top tourist attraction, with over 3 million visitors annually. In mid July, my husband and I were fortunate to ...

Laura French From 1883 up until his death in 1926, Catalan art nouveau master Antoni Gaudí devoted himself to the construction of La Sagrada Família, a towering, Gothic-style-with-a-twist church.

Pope Francis has elevated Antoni Gaudí to “venerable” status — bringing the modernist Spanish architect, who dedicated his life to building the Sagrada Familia basilica in Barcelona ...

Here & Now's Scott Tong talks with Pope Francis biographer Austen Ivereigh about why the architect of the Sagrada Familia, Barcelona's famed basilica, might become a saint.