Sagrada Família, 83 million visitors enter one peseta

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When, between fields and esplanades, the Sagrada Familia barely had the façade of the Nativity, the crypt and the bell tower of San Bernardo half built, the first tourists arrived. The year was 1915: “The world's attention focused on the Expiatory Temple of the Sagrada Familia, which we built in Barcelona, was demonstrated in the second half of April by the growing number of foreigners who visited it carefully, so that the guide was able to writ…