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Barcelona - capital of Catalonia, one of the most especial provinces of Spain. The city laying in a spacious bay with a huge amphitheater in a frame of parks goes down to sea. Long direct prospectuses are surrounded with palm-trees and plane trees. In the basis Barcelona very old city which survived of a little bit epoch and has perfectly kept monuments of the past.
At each city - the symbol. And Barcelona in this sense has carried, for a cathedral of Sacred Family (Sagrada Familia) - the present masterpiece. It is the main product каталонского architect Antonio Gaudi. It has been in love with the city: all masterpieces created only in Barcelona though also other cities dreamed to decorate the streets with architectural products of the original Spaniard.
But " the ingenious odd fellow " did not take orders from the party. It was devoted to Barcelona so, that never in a life left native city: has not gone even to Paris when the exhibition in his honour there has opened. This person did not know anything, except for work. His creations have replaced to it all - glory, riches, dialogue with friends. Gaudi was well-known, but did not betray to this value, it was not poor, but all means spent for creation of new masterpieces. It could posess the first beauties of Spain, friendship with it many known people searched, but Gaudi has made the choice - creativity, and anything more.
Antonio Gaudi was the unusual person. In manor Guel it has changed the project of a complex ladder, only to not cut a pine. " I can construct a ladder for three weeks and to bring up such tree, I will not have not enough life ".
Gaudi dreamed to suspend in gorge between rocks a huge bell, and on a slope of mountain Montserrat to lay out the huge arms of Catalonia from multi-coloured ceramics. And still it dreamed to construct a cathedral - an ideal temple in which people would feel harmony good luck, the nature and itself(himself).
Works have begun in 1884, but constantly stopped because of lack of money. Gaudi has given everything on construction, that at him was and distracted only on orders which could bring new money for a temple. The architect did not do precise projects and drawings to not hold down a flight of fancy. Therefore after his death there were only some sketches of details. Antonio Gaudi knew, that to it to not finish construction at a life. It frequently spoke, that this business of three generations. But it aspired to designate even contours of the dream. The cathedral of Sacred Family all will consist of symbols. In it there is no detail which had no communication with any bible character or a plot (for example, 12 towers are devoted to apostles, 4 - to evangelists, one more Пресвятой to Deva to Maria, and the highest (170m) - to Jesus Christ).
Forty two years the architect built the temple. That has turned out not similarly on one cathedral in the world. In this product the religion and a fairy tale, belief and dream have merged together.
Gaudi has died in 1926 when to it there were 74 years. It was brought down with the tram first in Barcelona which have been solemnly started up that day. Shipped in the ideas, Gaudi went not work, to a temple, and has not noticed " a technical miracle ". Some days could not establish the person of the victim. Thought, that it is a beggar so the great architect has poorly been dressed. The cathedral has remained unfinished, but also in such kind caused constant admiration in everyone who saw it. And in 1952 on some miracle Gaudi''s to kept drawings construction of a temple has renewed and proceeds to this day. Construction is conducted on means from donations of believers.
Can, it will proceed eternally, as well as it is necessary to cathedral-dream.
