Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia basilica is now the world’s tallest church after a part of its central tower was lifted into place. Antoni Gaudí's masterpiece now rises to 534 feet, beating out the former ...

Walking in the business district of Barcelona, Spain, my husband and I turned a corner and abruptly stopped. What suddenly appeared before our eyes — the Sagrada Família (Holy Family) Basilica — took ...

For a project in the works for more than 130 years, it is perhaps fitting that when the chief architect for Barcelona's breathtaking basilica La Sagrada Família recently announced construction had ...

If you visit Barcelona, two men will currently stand out in your mind - Lionel Messi and Antoni Gaudi. While the former is creating history for his club, FC Barcelona, Gaudi has left behind an entire ...

“May this star that shines from today enlighten you so that, as you unravel the beads of the rosary, you may say ‘yes’ once and for all to the grace of the Lord and give a resounding ‘no’ to sin.” The ...

Bureaucratic snafus have always been a thing, as the La Sagrada Familia Foundation and city of Barcelona can attest. Spanish architect Antoni Gaudí began construction on the La Sagrada Familia, a ...

On November 7, the one-of-a-kind Church of the Holy Family, or "Sagrada Familia," will be consecrated by Pope Benedict and also designated as a basilica. During a press conference regarding the ...

In this Sunday, Aug. 20, 2017 file photo, dignitaries leave after a Mass at Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia Basilica. (Credit: Manu Fernandez/AP.) Listen BARCELONA, Spain — Barcelona’s iconic La Sagrada ...

Pope Benedict XVI arrived today in Barcelona, his second stop on his two-day visit to Spain. In Barcelona, he consecrated the modernist Sagrada Familia basilica, regarded as one of the world's ...

Nearly 100 years after Spanish architect Antoni Gaudí devoted himself full-time to his magnum opus—the Roman Catholic Barcelona basilica La Sagrada Família—his dream is finally closer to reality (sort ...

Amid the horror and chaos of the Aug. 17 terrorist attack in Barcelona, more than 800 people found shelter in the Basilica of Santa Maria del Pi. The Gothic church, situated in the historic center of ...

Antoni Gaudí's masterwork, Barcelona's La Sagrada Família, has been a work-in-progress since 1883, continuing even after the architect's death in 1926. Its perpetually unfinished state has been part ...