Pope blesses Sagrada Familia's newest tower, 100 years after Gaudi's death | The World | ABC News

Pope Leo XIV has celebrated Spain's Sagrada Familia Basilica as an architectural masterpiece of "stones, colours and light" during a mass and ceremony to inaugurate its newest tower.

The procession also marked the centenary of the death of its architect, Antoni Gaudí, and attracted an estimated 120,000 people to the streets of Barcelona.

Professor Mark Burry AO is world-renowned for his restoration and completion work on the Sagrada Familia Basilica and spoke to The World's Girish Sawlani about the latest addition and future works to complete the church.

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