The Glory Facade
[Gaudi - Barcelona - Spain]

The Glory Facade is dedicated to the Celestial Glory of Jesus
[Sagrada Familia - Gaudi - Barcelona - Spain]

The Glory Facade is Gaudi's depiction of the road to God
[Gaudi - Barcelona - Spain]

The Glory Facade will be the largest and most striking of all the facades
Work began on the Glory Facade in 2002. [Sagrada Familia - Gaudi - Barcelona - Spain]

The Nativity Facade has three doorways representing Faith, Hope and Charity
Above each of the doorways are groups of sculptures which symbolise the particular virtue. The central doorway is the Charity door, which is topped by the Nativity scene. To the right is Faith and Hope is on the left. [Sagrada Familia - Gaudi - Barcelona - Spain]

The Nativity facade was the first facade to be completed.
Construction of the Nativity facade took place between 1894 and 1930. [Sagrada Familia - Gaudi - Barcelona - Spain]

The Passion Facade is a much plainer and the sculptures are free of ornaments
Through the Passion Facade Gaudi wanted to portray the desolation, the pain and the death of Christ. In sharp contrast to the Nativity Facade, there are no references to the joy of life in the Passion Facade. You don't see any floral or animal ornamentation here. The feeling here is one of the irreversible loss of death. [Sagrada Familia - Gaudi - Barcelona - Spain]

The three doorways of the Nativity facade representing Hope, Charity and Faith and the elaborate sculptures above them
[Sagrada Familia - Gaudi - Barcelona - Spain]

The west-facing Passion Facade
[Gaudi - Barcelona - Spain]

The witch scarers of Casa Mila
[Gaudi - Barcelona - Spain]

Upper level of the Nativity Facade portraying scenes of Nativity and Christ's childhood
[Sagrada Familia - Gaudi - Barcelona - Spain]

View of the west-facing Passion Facade
[Gaudi - Barcelona - Spain]

View of West facade
[Gaudi - Barcelona - Spain]

West facade towers
[Gaudi - Barcelona - Spain]

West facade view
[Gaudi - Barcelona - Spain]