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[โ€“] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

I really love St Grada Familia, such a unique cathedral!

Exterior

Interior

[โ€“] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

cathedral

Basilica, technically. As I understand it you can only have one cathedral per city, for some bureaucratic and / or religious reason, and Barcelona already had one. ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ

[โ€“] IHawkMike 30 points 1 year ago

I think it's for balancing purposes. It would be too OP if Spain could build as many cathedrals as they wanted in a city and stack culture bonuses.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hmm, interesting, I thought a basilica was an additional designation for a cathedral, I didn't know they could be stand alone. But I think you can only have one cathedral per bishop?

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Ah, that might indeed be it, cathedral = the seat (of a bishop), and it's bishops you can't have too many of in the same place, lest you get a schism.

[โ€“] very_well_lost 9 points 1 year ago

Wow... The outside looks like a Beksinski painting.

[โ€“] veng 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I got some weird reverse vertigo looking up from the inside when I was there, it was insanely high. Incredible place though.

[โ€“] RizzRustbolt 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just, don't play the organ while you're there.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Is it not voiced for it? Last time I checked, they just had a small portable organ instead of a large installed one.

[โ€“] thedeadwalking4242 0 points 1 year ago

Am I the only one who thinks the outside is really really ugly