It took 137 years, but Barcelona's La Sagrada Familia basilica finally has a permit

Bureaucratic snafus have always been a thing, as the La Sagrada Familia Foundation and city of Barcelona can attest. Spanish architect Antoni Gaudí began construction on the La Sagrada Familia, a Catholic basilica, in Barcelona in 1882. In 1885, he applied for a permit, sending the city signed blueprints for the church, but he never received a response. That didn't stop him from building the church, and 137 years later, it's still under construction, with the work based on Gaudí's plaster mode...