Sagrada Familia Church, under construction, 1971

            At the very end of my wonderful college adventure, a “Spring Semester at the University of Copenhagen” (Denmark) in 1971, I stayed an additional week or two with my Danish host family before flying home to Kansas, so that Poul Henrik (my “host family’s” son and university student, and I could do a little traveling together.  We decided to fly to Spain for a visit to Barcelona and surrounding area.  We were booked into a hotel in the costal town of Calella, Spain and rode the train to Barcelona each morning, and then another train ride back to our hotel in Calella each evening.  Barcelona was a fantastic city, with so many wonderful places to see,  and a perfect place to spend my last week in Europe!  I think our favorite attractions were the beautiful gothic Cathedral of Barcelona,  Antoni Gaudi’s renowned (and delightfully quirky) city park: “The Park Güell,” and Gaudi’s truly incredible “Church of the Sagrada Familia,” which, after ninety years, is still under construction.

When I was in Barcelona in 1971, and had seen and explored around Gaudi’s amazing church, I remember thinking that it was a little sad to know that even after all that construction time, I would never live long enough to see the “finished” church building.  How amazed I am now, to know that it may truly be completed in my lifetime, and even if I never get to Barcelona again, I can always see the Church through the images Flickr users have posted here! For that, I’m very grateful!

 I have a severe fear of heights (acrophobia), but this church was so very impressive and amazing that I was actually able to climb up very high in the towers to shoot these photos.

This image was scanned and edited in 2015 from my original 35mm slide, which I shot in late June of 1971, using a “Mamiya/sekor 1000 DTL.”

Please don't use this image on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit written permission.
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© 1971, 2015  Steve Clark

Taken on: March 31, 2012

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