Hi guys welcome to another episode of ultimate bucket list and on today's show
I'm here at gaudi's unfinished masterpiece the Sagrada família this
giant church basilica is the most famous landmark here in Barcelona and you can
see why it's an absolutely stunning piece of architecture when you go inside
you'll be absolutely blown away by the amounts of detail that's in this place
this is the work of Antoni Gaudi one of Catalans most famous architects and one
of Barcelona's most famous residents everything that you see here was his
design unfortunately he died 100 years ago so yeah he never actually saw this
thing completed and no matter where you look here at the Sagrada every facets of
it is beautiful but if you do want to come here you're going to be stuck in a
mile on cue and you can't even buy tickets on the day anymore it's that
popular you'll need to book way in advance online and once you've
negotiated the long queues you'll basically be stuck in a queue to go
through security but having said that once you go through security all you
need to do is scan your ticket and up the stairs you go towards the base of
the Sagrada família and when you climb those stairs boy it's a beautiful sight
to behold now I highly recommend that you purchase
an audio guide even though I don't generally recommend audio guides this
particular one was very educational and it points out various things that you
might otherwise miss
and expect that to be crowds of people where the audio guys tell me to go
there's a lot of people here today take a closer look at all the stone carvings
here because every carving and every parts of this church tells a story it's
there for a reason so for example this is to depict the story of the birth of
Jesus Christ but once you get bored of the exterior walk inside while you'll
receive the shock of your life because you'll see the most beautiful church
you'll have ever seen in your life seriously just look at this place and
once again Antoni gaudí was a genius there's a
specific reason why this is like this this should be called the Church of
Lights because there is just color and lights bathing the place it's actually
kind of cool albeit really really hard to believe so for example the windows
here are on the west and the amber in color Vista signifies summer whereas the
windows here on the East or Bailey blue in color and are there to signify winter
everything is designed like this for a reason and you can get lots of pretty
pictures and videos just from these windows alone I mean just take a look at
that and we've not even got to the ceiling yet in an amongst the ceiling
you'll find various sculptures that have some sorts of significant meaning and
when you do look up towards the ceiling and onto the beams of this place you'll
quickly realize that they resemble trees Gaudi was inspired by nature and he
designed everything to resemble nature so the pillars resemble trees and
believe or not they do an excellent job of holding up the ceiling so he was
pretty much a genius as well but take your time to explore because there is a
lot to take in and I'm not kidding once you realize the shared detail of the
ceiling of the beams of the windows everything including what's on the floor
you'll quickly realize that this guy was a genius and this is an absolute
masterpiece you do actually get to walk towards the altar and say a quick prayer
and technically you're not supposed to video or film at this point but seems
that everyone else is doing it I might as well but it's still a pretty altar
take a look at the exterior and some of the other rooms here at the Sagrada
família and when you do go outside you'll quickly realize that there is a
lot of detail so for example these weird pills here are meant to resemble human
ribs which is kind of cool and you can visit mr. gowdey himself he's actually
buried here but if you do decide to come here at night it's just as pretty be
sure to come back and take a few snaps of the Sagrada here at night because
it's actually quite pretty watch out for pickpockets though because that's a
problem here in this part of the city but it's totally worth the risk if you
get photos and videos like this but overall guys if you do decide to come
here to the most colorful Church in the world you will not be disappointed you
have to see this place once in your life and I highly recommend that you add this
to your bucket list absolutely positively 100% okay knit I'm salt what
do I do well you need to get here to the Sagrada família it's the tallest
building here in Barcelona and it has its own metro station so it's that easy
to find you basically get to the metro station walk up the street level and
whoop there it is the cost to do this tour well the prices vary depending on
what you want to do there's options to even go up the two towers but you have
to book that weeks in advance and technically this place was completely
booked up the week I was in Barcelona I managed to get a last dish tickets and
it was just basically a tour of the Sagrada and it was cost about 17 euros
is there anything else I need to know yes as a working Church there are
certain rules that you must abide by such as you need to be covered up at all
times you must be wearing a hat and they only let in certain amounts of things in
the sagrada itself and obviously book well in advance literally weeks in
advance to make sure that you get the best
possible tickets especially if you want to climb the towers if you have enjoyed
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Ninh Ly - www.ninh.co.uk - @NinhLyUK