At first glance, no one would say so, but in an industrial estate in Les Borges Blanques there is one of the key pieces of the Sagrada Família's machinery. There, piled on top of each other, are some of the stones that have made it possible for the temple to reach its roof this year with the completion of the Tower of Jesus, but also those needed to continue the work. In the capital of Les Garrigues, for almost fifteen years now, the stone that arrives from all over the world with which the basilica is being built has been stored. An open-air catalogue of the raw material with which Antoni Gaudí's great dream is made.

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