By Joan Faus

BARCELONA (Reuters) -Antoni Gaudi’s Sagrada Familia in Barcelona is edging towards completion, with the team behind it hopeful they can put the finishing touches to the modernist basilica in around 10 years, more than a century after the famed architect’s death.

The project’s chairman, Esteve Camps, told reporters on Thursday he had learned to be cautious after the COVID pandemic caused a collapse in visitor revenues for one of Europe’s biggest tourist draws and delayed the project’s end beyond a 2026 goal.

“We cannot say whether it will be 10, 11 or 12 years … but we think that in normal circumstances, without obstacles, it is likely that in 10 years we could be finished.”

Gaudi worked on the basilica from 1883 until he died in 1926. Next year, to mark a century since his

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