February 2008

The parts that more grow of the Sagrada Família are the apse and the cruise. In the apse, there is a scaffold to 45 m. height, visible from the street. On this level, there stand out the heads of the columns, which already are almost all placed, forming the central perimeter of the apse. From the street, one sees in this zone a great fence-clasper of steel, which purpose will be to gather the loads of the columns of support of the hyperboloid that will close internally the apse, to 75 m. of height. On the other hand, the artist Joan Vila Grau and the glazier Bonet already have put the windows of the central chapel of the apse, dedicated to one of seven antiphons of Advent "Oh Emanuel! ". In the cruise, the Temple also grows, though one does not see so well from the street. The Catalan style vaults of the 12 small hyperboloids have ended, between the towers of four Evangelists. They will surround the great central hyperboloid. This giant, unique hyperboloid in the world, on which the great tower of Jesus Christ will be, already has been begun. The rows of bricks, that will leave a few triangles with "trencadís" of Venetian gold that will give the light that will vibrate wrapping the "Celestial Jerusalem" that Gaudí wanted to place suspended in the center of the cruise, they will be putting concentric, re-following the directives marked by a great structure of wood. In addition, it continues being advanced in the closing of the vaults that go from the cruise to the front of the Passion, for that Josep Maria Subirachs is sculpting the figures of the lion of Israel and of Isaac's lamb. In the zone of the front of the Glory, there are constructed the vaults that joint this front with the lateral ships, to 30 m. of height. This has allowed to end the fifth large windows and to initiate the raising of the terminal correspondents with the last fruits that were absent, to side and side. Once ended, they will be able to put in their correspondent places the images of holy Joseph Manyanet and of holy Jeanne de Lestonac