In this report, architect and researcher Chiara Curti brings to light a previously unknown episode of Antoni Gaudí: the children’s visits to the Sagrada Familia promoted from 1914 onwards, during a severe economic crisis and at a time when the continuation of the temple was seriously threatened.
Through unpublished documentation preserved in the archive of Gaudí’s secretary, Curti shows how the architect decided to place his trust not in major patrons, but in children from charitable institutions, seeking to form a new generation capable of understanding and loving a work designed to endure through time.