For 137 years, the construction of Barcelona's Sagrada Familia had been carried out illegally.
That all changed on Friday when the Roman Catholic church finally received its building permit, accordingBarcelona's city council awarded the license to the committee in charge of completing the construction of the church for 4.6 million euros , Sanz wrote.PASCAL GUYOT/AFP/AFP/Getty Images
The money will be used to fund projects designed to mitigate the impact of approximately 4.5 million people who visit the unfinished basilica every year. She told reporters that the council had finally managed to"resolve a historical anomaly in the city -- that an emblematic monument like the Sagrada Familia... didn't have a building permit, that it was being constructed illegally," Agence France-Presse reported.
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