Sagrada Familia in Barcelona ‘will be completed in 2026’

New date for Antoni Gaudi's basilica announced but enormous, controversial stairway will take another eight years

Barcelona's Sagrada Familia basilica has a new completion date of 2026, which will come 144 years after the first stone was laid.

The president of the organisation tasked with completing Antoni Gaudi's masterwork announced the date last Wednesday, which coincides with the centenary of the death of the building's architect.