Maarten Hofman

Review of Organizacion de Salud "La Sagr...

You are in Barcelona, so you're obviously going to...

You are in Barcelona, so you're obviously going to visit the Sagrada. If you're smart, you already ordered the tickets online a few weeks before coming here, because that way you only paid 17 euros instead of the outrageous price they charge locally, or online once the tickets are sold out. There will be scalpers that offer tours, these may work but I tend to avoid them. In order to buy tickets locally, you have to go to the other side of the building. There they will give you tickets for a specific time slot, which will not be the time you arrive but usually be around two hours later (so if you arrive at 11, the tickets will be for 1). You can then circle to the other side of the building and at 15 minutes before the time listed you can start queuing up to get inside. The queue moves fast, but getting the audio tour will slow things down, as this is again in another corner of the building. Once inside things will initially look confusing: everything is still under construction, so big walls prevent you from getting the full view. However, at some point you will suddenly see the amazing (and rather modern) view of what they are trying to accomplish, which is definitely worth some of the hassle (although maybe not all).

My father would complain that the styles of the building are all different. They clearly had money issues and had to resort to cheaper sculptures, and the styles changed accordingly. It is also a bit modern compared to the other churches that I visited, but I am not sad that went went there and looked around.