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The newspaper El Comercio reported on José Manuel Almuzara's visit to Gijón, where he gave two lectures on Antoni Gaudí. The first was held in the assembly hall of the Basílica del Sagrado Corazón and the second was scheduled for Friday 27 February in the Almirante hall of the Club de Regatas.
On 26 February 2026 the Asturian newspaper El Comercio covered José Manuel Almuzara's visit to Gijón, where the architect and expert on the figure of Antoni Gaudí gave two lectures on the great genius of Modernisme. The first took place in the assembly hall of the Basílica del Sagrado Corazón. The second was scheduled for Friday 27 February at 7.30 p.m. in the Almirante hall of the Club de Regatas, with admission by invitation.
The paper sums up the thrust of his outreach: the scholar focuses his talks on who Gaudí was beyond his work, on what the architect sought to convey through the construction of his buildings and on the lesser-known details of his career. This is the line Almuzara has maintained for decades: Gaudí's stone cannot be understood without the man who raised it, nor the man without the faith that moved him. His lectures therefore dwell not on a catalogue of façades and vaults but on the reasons that brought them into being.
The two venues chosen in Gijón reflect that dual reach. The assembly hall of the Basílica del Sagrado Corazón placed the first talk at the heart of the city's parish life, while the Almirante hall of the Club de Regatas took the second into a civic setting. At the basilica, Almuzara appeared alongside Paz Villegas and Manuel Robles, as shown in the photograph illustrating the newspaper's report.
An architect by training, Almuzara has driven the Association for the Beatification of Antoni Gaudí since 1992, the body that set in motion the Church's recognition of the Catalan architect. That work has taken him for years to auditoriums, lecture halls and churches across Spain to present Gaudí for what he was: a practising Catholic who conceived the Sagrada Família as an offering to God. The Gijón lectures form part of that sustained outreach.
The Asturian engagement comes at a significant moment for the cause. Antoni Gaudí was declared Venerable by Pope Francis on 14 April 2025, following the recognition of his heroic virtues, a step that brings his beatification closer. In 2026, the centenary year of his death, gatherings such as those in Gijón bring the architect's spiritual profile to the public: not only the genius of Modernisme admired by visitors, but the believer whose life sustains the process now open in Rome.