Q 01/05

Barcelona, home of the Sagrada Família, is the capital of which Spanish region?

A) Andalusia

B) Catalonia

C) Galicia

D) Aragon

Answer · why

B) Catalonia

Catalonia. For all its size, the region's most famous church has never been its capital's cathedral: that title belongs to a medieval building in the ...

Q 02/05

Gaudí was the leading architect of Modernisme, Barcelona's own version of which international style?

A) Art Nouveau

B) Bauhaus

C) Art Deco

D) Brutalism

Answer · why

A) Art Nouveau

Art Nouveau, with its long, sinuous, plant-like lines, was known in Spain as Modernisme. Gaudí pushed it further than anyone, until the structure of a...

Q 03/05

Before Gaudí took over in 1883, the Sagrada Família was begun to a conventional design in which style?

A) Baroque

B) Gothic Revival

C) Neoclassical

D) Romanesque Revival

Answer · why

B) Gothic Revival

Gothic Revival was the plan of the first architect, Francisco de Paula del Villar, pointed bell tower and all. He quit after a year in a row over the ...

Q 04/05

Construction of the Sagrada Família began on 19 March 1882, the feast day of which saint?

A) St George

B) St James

C) St Eulalia

D) St Joseph

Answer · why

D) St Joseph

St Joseph was the patron of the lay association that commissioned the church, so its first architect picked the saint's feast day for the first stone....

Q 05/05

José María Bocabella, who conceived the Sagrada Família and promoted it in his own devotional magazine, made his living as what?

A) A priest

B) A bookseller

C) A teacher

D) A notary

Answer · why

B) A bookseller

A bookseller: Bocabella came home from a pilgrimage to Rome and the shrine of the Holy House at Loreto dreaming of an exact copy for his own city, unt...