This was the first stone used on the construction of the church and the most emblematic. On the exterior, Montjuïc stone dominates the building, from the stone crib on the Nativity façade, which is said to be the largest ever constructed in the material, to the inclined columns of the Passion façade. In the apse are the spires sculpted like the ears of wheat that once grew around the church, and the towers, which rise to over 100 m, and the evangelists towers, which were begun in 2006. It is known to have been used in Roman times. For town planning reasons the quarries on the mountain were closed in the second half of the 20th century. Since then the church has usedMontjuïc stone from demolitions, donations and stocks of material.

This stone is extremely hard. It is a detrital siliciclastic sedimentary rock. Mineralogically it is formed of angular pieces of quartz, feldspar, fragments of rocks (mainly metamorphic and granite) and minority minerals such as muscovite or tourmaline...

As far as the texture is concerned the large pieces are joined with microcrystalline silicic cement. In general, this rock may be classified as a silicic stone or a silicic litharenite, since it contains a high proportion of large lithics.



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