Q 01/05

The Sagrada Família stands in which city?

A) Barcelona

B) Madrid

C) Seville

D) Valencia

Answer · why

A) Barcelona

It rises in the Eixample district and has become the city's defining silhouette.

Q 02/05

Who designed the Sagrada Família as we know it, taking over the project in 1883?

A) Santiago Calatrava

B) Antoni Gaudí

C) Lluís Domènech i Montaner

D) Josep Puig i Cadafalch

Answer · why

B) Antoni Gaudí

He devoted the rest of his life to it and is buried inside the church.

Q 03/05

Who first led the Sagrada Família, with a Gothic revival plan dropped when he resigned?

A) Elies Rogent i Amat

B) Josep Fontserè i Mestre

C) Francisco de Paula del Villar

D) Joan Martorell i Montells

Answer · why

C) Francisco de Paula del Villar

He had completed the apse crypt before quitting on 18 March 1883.

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

The project was funded by a Spiritual Association of Devotees of that saint.

Q 05/05

Which bookseller founded the association that commissioned the Sagrada Família?

A) José María Bocabella

B) Eusebi Güell i Bacigalupi

C) Josep Batlló i Casanovas

D) Pere Milà i Camps

Answer · why

A) José María Bocabella

He returned from a visit to the Vatican in 1872 wanting to build a church inspired by the basilica at Loreto.