GAUDI

The cathedral known as Sagrada Familia or sacred family was designed by the architect Antoni Gaudi. Europe's most unconventional church, on the forefront of modernist design, it has been 125 years in the making and still under construction.

There are other Gaudi masterpieces in Barcelona, several houses and a park, but this one is open to the public and by signing up for a tour, I bypassed the long lines waiting to enter.

There is much symbolism in the design elements. Above photo shows some of the 8 finished bell towers and when finally complete there will be 12, one for each of the apostles. Inside there are 52 towers supporting the structure. A few can be seen in this altar photo. They number represents for the number of Sunday's in the year. The altar: