Real animals decorate the gargoyles of the Sagrada Família

The apse of the Sagrada Família features gargoyles sculpted in the form of real animals instead of the imaginary creatures of traditional Gothic buildings. Antoni Gaudí chooses to represent a snail, a frog, a salamander, a lizard, and a chameleon to adorn the pinnacles of his pillars. These reptiles and amphibians have the particularity of being historically associated with evil in Christian iconography.