Popular church will curb tourist crowds by creating separate 'selfie space'

Many travelers to Barcelona, Spain, whitethorn find themselves astatine 1 of the astir beauteous ineffable places successful the world: the Sagrada Familia.

The basilica is the largest unfinished Catholic church, attracting not conscionable worshippers but tourists from each over.

Sagrada Familia attracts truthful galore tourists that the metropolis of Barcelona is present gathering a circumstantial country conscionable for visitors to drawback photos.

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In an enactment program enactment unneurotic by the Barcelona Tourism Management (BTM), officials state, "The country astir the Sagrada Familia was not designed for the intensive usage it presently experiences."

The nationalist spaces successful that area, the program said, person reached a "saturation point."

The Sagrada Familia successful Barcelona, Spain, volition beryllium adding much tourer attraction areas to curb overcrowding. (Urbanandsport/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Officials accidental that "work needs to beryllium done to amended this abstraction successful the pursuing areas of intervention: municipality landscape, tourer attraction points, nationalist abstraction exemplary and disruptions oregon transformations resulting from municipality developments."

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One of the tourer attraction points is an country dedicated to representation taking successful a ample plaza connected the Placa Gaudi facing the beforehand of the church.

The plaza, officials say, volition alleviate congested sidewalks and permission country successful beforehand of section businesses that were antecedently blocked by tourists.  (iStock)

The plaza volition alleviate congested sidewalks and permission country successful beforehand of section businesses that were antecedently blocked by tourists. 

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The religion was designed by Spanish designer Antoni Gaudi opening successful 1882.

It attracted 4.7 cardinal visitors successful 2023, according to BTM.

The Sagrada Familia attracted 4.7 cardinal visitors successful 2023 alone. (Urbanandsport/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

"A caller plan of the quadrate would let a [physical link] with Avinguda de Gaudí to promote flows toward the Sant Pau Modernist complex," the enactment program says.

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The yearly measurement of visitors to the basilica and its surrounding country is estimated to beryllium betwixt 18 and 22 cardinal people, according to BTM.