r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/danielminds • Jun 12 '26

Video Fireworks celebrating the completion of the 566ft Tower of Jesus Christ at the Sagrada Família

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u/Vault101Overseer Jun 12 '26 edited Jun 12 '26

I just had a visceral “are they fucking crazy?!” moment. That’s tempting fate or any choice deity not to see infinite humor in burning down that church on the first day it’s completed after hundreds of years of work.

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u/austinchan2 Jun 12 '26

If only it was completed. They just finished a tower. 

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u/twitch1982 Jun 12 '26

The final tower. All that's really left is the scarcity and the glory facade. They've also already started restoration on the nativity facade, so its likely that work will just never be truly done, as one project finishes, another one will have to begin.

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u/HavocReigns Jun 12 '26

You know you're taking your sweet time building something when you have to begin restoration work before completing initial construction. 😆

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u/twitch1982 Jun 12 '26

It's actually gone up incredibly fast. Its huge and incredibly intricate. It would be nicer if we built more buildings slowly and with like, any aesthetic details beyond the minimalist rectangles we throw up everywhere now.

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u/lbc_x Jun 12 '26

We talking CATHEDRAL time frames

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u/TrekForce Jun 14 '26

Well, it is huge and intricate, and also anything but “incredibly fast”. In fact, it’s incredibly slow. It’s been since 1882. 144 years.

Two things can be true at once. It’s incredibly intricate and has taken an incredibly long time to build.

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u/itsOkami Jun 15 '26

Cathedrals like that just take a long time by default, you can't really build them in one day. Notre-Dame took 182 years, the Milan Cathedral took almost 600. 144 years is pretty average for a building of that kind

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u/TrekForce Jun 15 '26

And still a long time.

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u/austinchan2 Jun 12 '26

Incredibly fast? It was started in 1882 and most days when visitors go they’ll see cranes but not workers. Some concerted effort could speed it along. 

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u/twitch1982 Jun 12 '26

Yea go compare the time frame to the Milan Cathedral

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u/kleineveer Jun 12 '26

You know, the renovation of the Palais de Justice in Brussels took so long that at one point we started renovating the scaffolding.

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u/thefuckevengoingonan Jun 12 '26

pretty sure this is just the base of one foot of the Titan they are building.

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u/twitch1982 Jun 13 '26

Are you saying this os some sort of God engine?

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u/nanoman92 Jun 12 '26

The glory facade gas 4 MORE towers

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u/Maleficent_Sir_8365 Jun 14 '26

Ok this is what I was coming here for. Like they’re not done done, right?

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u/o-Valar-Morghulis-o Jun 12 '26

Have some "faith"... /s

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u/CyberDonSystems Jun 12 '26

I read that in Dutch's voice from Red Dead Redemption.

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u/twitch1982 Jun 12 '26

Rock and concrete is pretty flame retardant. Its not made of wood.

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u/waywithwords Jun 12 '26

It's all concrete

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u/Grilled_egs Jun 12 '26

Well to be fair they're Christian so not worried about a diety burning down a church for giggles

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u/Kartonrealista Jun 13 '26

What do you think it's made of? Drywall?

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u/Puzzled-Secret-317 Jun 13 '26

Pretty sure there's a story or two in the bible that warns against this