it’s likely that the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, the Plaza de España in Seville or the Alhambra in Grenada spring to mind, but none of these landmarks claimed the crown as the very best in ...

but also his best. But the church wasn't always Gaudí's. The architect that was first commissioned to work on the Sagrada, Francisco de Paula del Villar, was replaced after disagreeing with its ...

Funded through donations, the first architect of La Sagrada Familia, Francisco de Paula del Villar, planned for a neo-Gothic structure beginning with the crypt. Work started on the site in 1882 ...