https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Spain in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed The long-awaited completion of Barcelona's Sagrada Familia will no longer happen in 2026 because the coronavirus epidemic has curtailed its construction and frustrated funding, basilica officials admitted Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.es/20200917/coronavirus-blamed-for-delayed-completion-date-for-barcelonas-sagrada-familia Thu, 17 Sep 2020 11:00:59 +0200 coronavirus-blamed-for-delayed-completion-date-for-barcelonas-sagrada-familia Construction of Barcelona's Sagrada Família may have started 137 years ago, but the emblematic basilica only got a building permit... on Friday. https://www.thelocal.es/20190608/barcelona-gives-sagrada-famlia-building-permit-after-137-years Sat, 08 Jun 2019 12:46:42 +0200 barcelona-gives-sagrada-famlia-building-permit-after-137-years Barcelona will pedestrianise and install obstacles on some of its busiest tourist streets in response to the August terror attack in the city where a van ploughed into pedestrians, killing 14. https://www.thelocal.es/20171117/barcelona-unveils-new-anti-terror-measures-in-response-to-august-attack Fri, 17 Nov 2017 12:30:17 +0100 barcelona-unveils-new-anti-terror-measures-in-response-to-august-attack Plans have been unveiled that will make Barcelona's Sagrada Familia the tallest church in the world when it is finally completed in 2026. https://www.thelocal.es/20151022/sagrada-familia-will-be-tallest Thu, 22 Oct 2015 14:49:39 +0200 sagrada-familia-will-be-tallest Some 1,500 people attended a memorial service Monday at Barcelona's iconic Sagrada Familia Cathedral, and paid homage to the 150 people killed in last month's Germanwings plane crash. https://www.thelocal.es/20150428/ermanwings-victims-remembered-in-barcelona-memorial-service Tue, 28 Apr 2015 10:42:44 +0200 ermanwings-victims-remembered-in-barcelona-memorial-service A 40-metre model of Gaudí's emblematic Sagrada Familia will be built out of ice in Finland this winter. The Local talks to the mastermind behind this ambitious project. https://www.thelocal.es/20140714/barcelonas-sagrada-familia-to-be-built-out-of-ice Mon, 14 Jul 2014 19:05:00 +0200 barcelonas-sagrada-familia-to-be-built-out-of-ice The architect behind Barcelona's most emblematic landmarks, Antoni Gaudí, is to be beatified within the next year by Pope Francis, Catalonia's top radio station has announced. https://www.thelocal.es/20140526/barcelonas-gaud-to-be-made-a-saint Mon, 26 May 2014 13:17:42 +0200 barcelonas-gaud-to-be-made-a-saint The famous resident falcons of Barcelona iconic Sagrada Família church became the proud parents of three chicks recently, but the predatory birds still remain massively outnumbered by pesky local pigeons. https://www.thelocal.es/20140425/sagrada-famlia-falcons-welcome-new-chicks Fri, 25 Apr 2014 15:55:00 +0200 sagrada-famlia-falcons-welcome-new-chicks Two stained glass masterpieces made by Catalonia's most prolific architect, Antoni Gaudí, have been discovered after being stashed away in a chapel outside Barcelona for decades. https://www.thelocal.es/20140415/gaudi-barcelona-stained-glass-architecture Tue, 15 Apr 2014 14:55:00 +0200 gaudi-barcelona-stained-glass-architecture A new Spanish-themed episode of the long-running US cartoon series The Simpsons shows Homer Simpson living out one of his childhood dreams by visiting the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona with his childhood pen pal. https://www.thelocal.es/20131115/simpsons-go-spanish-with-barcelona-cameo Fri, 15 Nov 2013 11:24:00 +0100 simpsons-go-spanish-with-barcelona-cameo Members of the environmental group Greenpeace have suspended themselves with ropes from the top of Barcelona’s iconic Sagrada Familia Cathedral demanding the immediate release of thirty activists arrested on a Gazprom oil rig in the Russian Arctic. https://www.thelocal.es/20131108/greenpeace-hijacks-barcelonas-sagrada-familia Fri, 08 Nov 2013 14:44:00 +0100 greenpeace-hijacks-barcelonas-sagrada-familia