With its rickrack bell towers and spires, La Sagrada Família loomed like a spiny-horned prehistoric species. The cathedral sprouted from the center of Barcelona, and its towers could be seen from high points almost anywhere in the city. Inside, visitors tumbled into the cylinder of a kaleidoscope as the cathedral’s Modernist stained-glass shapes refracted red, green, yellow and blue and splashed new hues onto the floor, walls and vaulted ceilings. Read more...