More than 140 years after a Spanish bishop laid the cornerstone of Barcelona's Sagrada Familia basilica, the famously incomplete church is inching toward the finish line, with five of its six central towers now finally fully built as of last week.
The four completed towers were crowned with sculptures of winged figures associated with the Evangelists: an ox, an eagle, a human, and a lion, the church foundation said.
Mr. Gaudi, the brilliant and idiosyncratic Catalan architect, spent much of the latter half of his life designing and building the church. The cornerstone was laid in 1882, and Mr. Gaudi worked intensively on the project.
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