| Towards the end of the 19th century it was clearly perceptible that the modernism was about to change the society with the many great inventions taking place at that time, and this cathedral was the vision of this bookseller, that it should be a reaction to the modernism and ensure, that the religious aspect also in the future would play a role in the Catalan society. Especially because Barcelona, as the capital of Catalonia, was particular under influence of the spread of modernism. |
