Sagrada Familia, 2023: Ascent And Descent of The Towers

Practical tip: If you visit Barcelona and do the Sagrada Familia and think you want to do the towers, be sure to scroll down and carefully read the fine print before you buy your online tickets. There, you will discover that, while an elevator takes you nearly to the mirador in the tower, you have to walk back down. No elevator. What it doesn't tell you at all is that you have walk down a very narrow, steep, exposed, winding 406 steps. 406. Not good for 70-something knees, especially the artificial ones; nor for persons with balance issues. But we did it, enjoyed the views, and only had to take one following day off and additional doses of pain reliever to recover. Further practical tip: there are other, cheaper, less painful ways to see Barcelona from on high.

At the mirador, which is actually a sort of catwalk between
two of the towers

Construction site

Baguettes?

Now most of the way down, wide enough to stop
for a few pix

In the forest of columns

Literally, at the exit, they tell you...