Life of Antoni Gaudi

Antoni Gaudí (1852-1926) Parents Francesc Gaudí Serra (1813-1906), a coppersmith from Riudoms, married Antonia Cornet Bertran (?-1876), daughter of coppersmiths from Reus, on May 9, 1843, in the parish church of St. Peter the Apostle, in Reus, before the Vicar Joan Ixart. *Coppersmiths: those who make the copper stills used for distilling alcohol from grapes in the Camp de Tarragona. Birth Antoni Plàcid Guillem Gaudí Cornet was born on Wednesday, June 25, 1852, at nine-thirty AM in Baix …

…it hadn't been for the tram he may have lived many more years, since his father had lived to the age of 93, with all his vigor. Half of Barcelona dressed in black to give final homage to a man that had become very popular, although few had ever met him personally. His body was buried in the crypt of the edifice where he had worked for the last 43 years of his life, the Sagrada Familia.