• Church and state clash over railway tunnel under Barcelona landmark

THE TEMPLE Expiatori de la Sagrada Família, Antoni Gaudi's unfinished masterpiece that has become a symbol of Barcelona, may be under threat from a proposed high-speed train link passing beneath the church's undulating façade.Those striving to complete the architect's extravagant fantasy complain the proposed cross-town link connecting Barcelona to the French border will cause irreparable damage to the city's best-known monument. They have mounted a fierce campaign to persuade regional and municipal authorities to divert the tunnel away from the site.