According to the taxonomy of the science of geology, rocks are classified in three broad groups: igneous or magmatic, sedimentary and metamorphic. With that order we shall specify the types of rock used for La Sagrada Família and their origins:

IGNEOUS
Granites, basalts and porphyries, 9 variants:

GRANITES (6 varieties)
Ull de serp(Maresme and Vallès Oriental)
Fraguas (Lugo)
Silvestre Sayago (Zamora)
Blanco Cristal (Madrid)
Tarn (France)
Bóveda Moré(Lugo)

BASALTS (2 varieties)
Castellfollit de la Roca (Garrotxa)
Bagnoregio (Italy)

PORPHYRIES: (1 typology)
Red porphyry (Iran)


SEDIMENTARY
Sandstone, calcarenite, limestone..., 12 varieties

MontjuÏc (Barcelonés)
Lleida stone (Segriá)
Vilafranca stone (Penedés)
Calafell stone (Penedés)
Floresta stone (Garrigas)
Sant Vicenç stone (Bages)
Scottish stone (Scotland)
Alabaster
Figueres (Ampurdán)
Garraf (Garraf)
Ulldecona (Montsiá)
Travertino (Italy)


METAMORPHIC
Blanc Macael (Almería)



STONES USED BY GAUDÍ
STONES USED UNTIL TODAY
CLASSIFICATION
PROPERTIES OF THE STONE
MONTJUÏC STONE
TEXTURES OF THE STONE