Expiatory Church of the Holy Family
Local name: Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família
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Local name: Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família
Here you will see which parts of the famous appearance were built before officials agreed to legalize them.
The story of the commission explains why part of the architect’s design disappeared, while the unrealized dedication remained on the façade.
This stop shows how a family inheritance became both a museum and a working institute.
The crypt will explain how the discovered remains strengthened the see and changed the church’s dedication.
The final stop will connect the layout of the house-workshop with the rescue of a photographic archive left in its basement.
This stop will show how a new title was combined with formal rooms and income-producing apartments.
This stop will show how merchants regained the trading house occupied by troops and preserved its medieval core.
Here, cargo will become collateral, and a warehouse will become the subject of a struggle between the port and a private company.
The ruins will show why archaeologists had to stop and redo construction that had already begun.
Two facades make it possible to trace how a few dozen meters changed the scale of a political decision.
You will learn why a modern work of urban art was placed in front of ancient gates.
This stop links the Olympic race with the memory of a coastal neighborhood that disappeared before the Games.
Here you will see the entire dispute at once and learn what official answer the city hall gave to it.
Here the first task of the new waterfront becomes clear: to bring city residents back to the water without trapping boats inside the harbor.
You will see how a private renovation could have destroyed an ancient ensemble and at the same time helped reveal it.
The final stop will show the cost of transforming industrial Icària into a residential Olympic district.