# Quote — Robert Hughes, Barcelona

> One thing is sure: the Sagrada Familia is the first Catholic temple whose bacon was ever saved by Shinto tourism. Not even Gaudi, who believed in miracles, could have forseen that.

- Author: [Robert Hughes](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-hughes.md)
- Book: [Barcelona](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-hughes/barcelona.md)
- Page: 526
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Hughes#Barcelona_(1992)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-hughes/barcelona/one-thing-is-sure

## More from this book

> New Song rapidly accumulated a nucleus of talent, and its best-known group was Els Setze Jutges, The Sixteen Judges, whose odd-sounding name came from a phrase used as a password by Catalan patriot troops during the rising against and occupation army in 1640 during the Reapers' War: "Setze jutges d'un jutjat menjen fetge d'un penjat" ("Sixteen judges on a tribunal eat the liver of a hanged man"). No lisping Castilian, it was believed, could pronounce this barrage of fricatives.

p. 11 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-hughes/barcelona/new-song-rapidly.md)

> Everything that would be said against the Eixample's heirs, from Le Corbusier's 'ville radieuse' to Oscar Niemeyer's Brasilia, was already said, with far less justice, about the Eixample itself. And all its critics concurred that the basic mistake was to have left the planning of a city in the hands of a socialist.

p. 284 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-hughes/barcelona/everything-that-would.md)