Crossroads Roundup: La Sagrada Familia Gets a Completion Date, an Update on the British Museum Heist, and Reforesting Scotland

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Exterior of la Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, Spain. Photographed on July 21st, 2018. Via Wikimedia Commons.

After 140 years of construction, the iconic Sagrada Familia will finally be completed in 2026.

In 1882, construction began in Barcelona on a basilica that would break the norms of church architecture by blending the Gothic and Art Nouveau, while strongly emphasizing natural imagery. For example, the interior of the church was designed to resemble a towering forest (see below), and its Nativity Façade includes a cypress tree that symbolizes the Tree of Life.