Lego to mark Sagrada Familia completion with largest ever set

Toy brand Lego is reportedly set to release a model of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, which will be the largest set ever created.

Set to be launched as part of the company's Architecture series, the news of the upcoming Lego set was leaked by a long-time leaker known as Chief Wiggum, whose predictions have proven true in the past.

According to the leak, the Lego version of Antoni Gaudí's Sagrada Familia cathedral will be made of 12,060 pieces, making it the largest set ever released by the toy company. The current biggest set sold by the brand is the Art World Map, which has 11,695 pieces.

Sagrada Familia set to complete this year

Although no official launch date has been announced, the leak suggests that the set will be released this year. This will align the release with the completion of the Sagrada Familia and with the 100th anniversary of Gaudí's death.

Construction on the Sagrada Familia, designed by Catalan architect Gaudí as the main cathedral in Barcelona, began in 1882.

After 140 years, the cathedral is set to be completed this year.

The huge church is topped with 18 spires, including the 170-metre-high central spire, which makes the building the tallest church in the world – almost 10 metres higher than Ulm Minster in Germany.

Latest set in Lego's Architecture series

The set would be the latest in Lego's Architecture series, which was launched in 2008 with the Sears Tower and the John Hancock Center skyscrapers.

Since then, the toy brand has made models of some of the world's most significant works of architecture, including the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum and Fallingwater by Frank Lloyd Wright, Farnsworth House by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Villa Savoye by Le Corbusier.

Other significant buildings that have been recreated in Lego sets, including the Empire State Building in New York and Paris's Notre-Dame cathedral and Eiffel Tower.

The photo is by Maksim Sokolov.

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