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A century after he was fa tally struck by a tram, Barcelona’s famed Antoni Gaudí is on track to reach heights never achieved ...
Antoni Gaudí, the celebrated Catalan long nicknamed “God’s architect” for designing Barcelona’s Sagrada Família, has been put on the path to sainthood by the Vatican.
The best £6.99 I ever spent was on a January afternoon in Brighton in 1989, when I saw something in a student book sale that grabbed my attention. I’d made the journey for an open day at the ...
With more than one million visitors annually, Casa Batlló is an important landmark by Catalan architecture master Antoni Gaudí. Now, a new, comprehensive restoration of the building's rear façade, ...
Antoni Gaudi (1852-1926) Catalan architect c. 1882 Rue des Archives / Getty Images Two decades later, in 2023, Cardinal Juan Jose Omella, Archbishop of Barcelona, commissioned a group of religious ...
Pope Francis has approved the first step towards sainthood for Antoni Gaudi, the modernist architect behind Barcelona's "Sagrada Familia" basilica, the Vatican said on Monday. Gaudi was a pious man ...
In one of his final official acts before he died, Pope Francis put Antoni Gaudí, Spain’s most famous architect, onto the path to sainthood. Gaudí's masterpiece, the Sagrada Familia, is a ...
The Church began in 2003 to vet Gaudi, a visionary and pious architect who died in 1926. In 2023, Omella commissioned a group of religious and lay people to press his cause.