Basílica de Santa Maria del Pi

This guide to the Basilica de Santa Maria del Pi in Barcelona centers on the rose window above the entrance, and on the night of June 20, 1936, when anticlerical militants at the start of the Spanish Civil War set the church burning and its medieval stained glass melted from its frames. You'll hear about the thirteenth-century glassmaker who first set the window with numbers from the Book of Revelation, and about Josep Maria Jujol, once Antoni Gaudi's right hand, who was given the task of bringing it back after the war. The church itself, named for a pine tree once on this spot, dates back centuries earlier still.