I read in Rick's Barcelona book that "you'll get the opportunity to cross a dizzying bridge between towers." However, nothing on the Sagrada Familia site mentions the bridge. Is this an extra or part of the tower ticket? We want to do the bridge and want to make sure it's included.
Thank you,
Lynn Fox
There's no bridge crossing! Don't know what he means by that but the towers do not communicate. Not for visitors, not at the time being, I mean.
Having said that, in the near future, there'll be four bridges communicating the evangelists' towers with the central tower, the tallest one, representing Jesus. Visitors will be allowed to cross two of these bridges to take the elevator to the top. But there's no date in sight as when this will be open to the public.
For those curious in the details, this is a great post https://blog.sagradafamilia.org/en/divulgation/bridges-connecting-the-central-towers/
Thanks Enric. Odd, because there's a Youtube video which clearly shows visitors crossing a bridge high above.
Here's a link to the video (it looks like a promo video, not some visitor's amateur movie.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TFlWURpMH0
Lynn
Yes, I see... I can't explain it sorry, either this was a special visit -as in "special guests" (ie architects or colleagues from another country) which from time to time, I know they have access to special areas of the SF to see how works are proceeding.... or it's a very recent addendum to the regular visit which I am not aware of. Again, while I try to be up-to-date on things happening in the city, I can't possibly cover everything, moreover noting I don't work in any tourist-related activity :)))
Note, however, this -the installation of the four bridges- is something that had been planned to be finished barely two weeks ago (end of May), and, knowing about the importance of SF here, I know for certain i'd be bound to become news when opening to the public... and I don't recall having seen it announced as such anywhere (press, TV....) so I'm a bit incredulous about being "open to the general public" as of now, despite the video. But again, I can be wrong, of course.
Sorry not to be more helpful here.
Maybe some clarification here ...
https://thebettervacation.com/passion-facade-or-nativity-facade-which-is-better-sagrada-familia/
Is it the one at 1:42? I think that is part of the regular path.... it's very small. I think we went up Nativity Tower and there was definitely a little bridge... but it's small.
Kim
Yep this is what I wrote in my blog in 2014... (I had to move sites and haven;t redone the pictures yet! So I cant find the picture of it...) but I wrote this:
At 9:30 it was time to go up the Nativity tower. We took an elevator up, and then climbed a bit more. Wow that was a tight staircase! We crossed a bridge to the passion tower, got some great pictures and got to sneak peeks out the windows at the construction.
** also went again last summer and I remember the same little bridge.
Now I may have been mistaken about what it's called? But we definitely came down in a different part than when we went up and I know there was a little bridge.
Kim
This adds to my curiosity since the news article -from MARCH 2018- states:
"Over the coming days, we’re planning to put in the first of four bridges that will connect the towers of the evangelists to the tower of Jesus, on the tower of Luke. And the rest we’ll be seeing in their place soon, from now through mid-May"
This is some footage from recent news on Catalan National TV regarding the new bridges: http://www.ccma.cat/tv3/alacarta/noticies-324/collocacio-dels-ponts-de-les-torres-dels-evangelistes-a-la-sagrada-familia/video/5755405/ and they say "...munten els ponts" -Catalan for "they assemble the bridges"... instead of "the new bridges" which would be the most logical way to present it if there were other bridges in place. Are we perhaps "lost in translation here" and taking an existing "pasarel·la" (gangway) for a "pont" (bridge)? are we perhaps talking about different things? I don't know but again, I am curious to find out.
For info, in Catalan... a "pont" would cross something while a "passarel·la" would simply connect but not necessarily crossing over something. Then, taking into account that we're talking about towers located in different façades it sounds unlikely there's a bridge. Has anyone actually ever ascended thru one tower and descended thru the other??
When we toured the towers a few years ago there was a small "bridge" you crossed over. But very small. I still recommend you go up to the tower-we toured the Nativity one. But remember they are still building and there will be construction at the top. Loved the Sagrada Familia-it was our favorite spot in Barcelona.
From the link I gave above...
“A bridge connects two towers of Nativity facade. Once you take the elevator and go up the Nativity facade, you can walk on the bridge for incredible views. Passion facade has no such bridge. Standing on this bridge of Nativity facade you can view diverse details of the towers from close.”
The bridge does not connect one facade with the other, just towers within the nativity facade.
That'd then be a "passarel·la", not a "pont". So it was a matter of lost in translation after all, LOL!
