Antoni Gaudí spent the last 43 years of his life on Sagrada Família, sleeping in his workshop and abandoning other commissions to focus on a basilica he knew he'd never see finished. When he died in 1926, mistaken for a beggar after being struck by a tram, only about ten percent stood complete. The rest would take five generations.
The church rises like a stone forest, its columns branching toward hyperboloid vaults pierced with circular apertures. Eighteen towers will represent biblical figures, the tallest dedicated to Christ at 172 metres. Gaudí designed it to stay just shorter than Barcelona's Montjuïc hill, remarking that man's work shouldn't surpass God's. Three façades tell Christ's story: the Nativity he sculpted himself, the angular Passion by Josep Maria Subirachs, and the yet-unbuilt Glory depicting hell to salvation.
VoiceMap's self-guided audio tours decode the symbolism carved into every surface, from magic squares that sum to 33, Christ's age at death, to Gaudí's revolutionary hanging models that calculated structural loads without computers.