
St. George
The Catalan parton saint overlooking the entry doors.
The Catalan parton saint overlooking the entry doors.
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The blue/green side. We couldn't get to that upper level. They were doing construction.
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The stained glass was just so pretty, we couldn't stop taking pictures.
barcelona cathedral gaudi rose window sagrada familia spain stained glass
The Our Father prayer is written on these doors down the center in Catalan. Covering the entire doors are the words "Our Father" engraved in all different languages.
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Another shot of the ceiling.
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Looking down through an arch in to one of the chapels.
Everything was so beautiful. We took TONS of photos. It was hard to choose which ones to post.
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Even got Bill in there while he was taking a picture!
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In addition to the large ceiling tiles that resemble flowers, there are small flowers that look like they're in vases above and to the left of the rose window.
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You can see how big the columns are with the people standing around. The church is huge!
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Even though it was rainy outside there was still enough light to stream in through the beautiful stained glass windows.
barcelona cathedral columns gaudi sagrada familia spain stained glass
All of Gaudi's designs were patterned after something in nature. The staircase was patterned after a conch shell.
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A statue of St. Joseph at one end of the basilica.
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Gaudi designed the columns to look like trees with branches.