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Monuments of Seville (capital) |
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The Cathedral of Seville is located on the location of the Great erected Mosque in century XII and of which it conserves his to alminar, today denominated "Giralda" by the vane whereupon he was hopeless in century XVI; the patio of the ablutions, and what was Fore door of the Mosque, today denominated "Door of the Pardon".
The Mosque was turned Christian Cathedral when the City was conquered by Fernando III of Castile in 1.248, without for that reason its architectonic structure was altered. |
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In 1.401 it is decided to raise to a new temple, existing the tradition of which one of the canons, when the agreement was taken pronounced the phrase: "We make a church so great that those that will see it finished have to us by crazy people". The phrase is not exaggerated, since it is the greater gothic temple of the world and the third temple of the cristiandad after San Pedro of the Vatican and San Pedro of London.
Ésto gives an idea us of the impossibility to not even mention a small part of the artistic treasures that contains.
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The main one is composed by five ships, being higher, 36 mts, that the lateral ones, 26 mts. The peak altitude, 40 mts, presents/displays the Crucero.La plants is a rectangle of 116 mts. of length by 76 mts. of width.
In the lateral ships chapels put in between the abutments are arranged.
The Greater Chapel nevertheless occupies a section of the central ship. They emphasize the iron grates and the púlpitos, works of century XVI of Fray Fco. de Salamanca.El Greater Altarpiece, considered like greatest of the cristiandad, is work that is made almost in diverse phases throughout a century, between 1,482 and 1,564, according to the plans of Pyeter Dancart. Other that took part were: Pedro Millán, the brothers Jorge German Fernandez and I move away Fernandez, Roque Balduque, Juan Vázquez Baptist Viejo and Pedro de Heredia. |
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Another section of the central ship is occupied by the Choir whose ashlar masonry is work made between centuries XV and XVI.
The Real Chapel, located in the wall of the head, is work of Martín de Gaínza, the century XVI that replaced the old gothic apse. In the main hornacina of the altarpiece, it receives cult the Virgin of the Kings, gothic image of second half of the century XIII and that belonged to Fernando III. Before the Altar of the Virgin of the Kings one has a ballot box golden silver and crystal that the body contains incorrupto of San Fernando.
The Room To capitulate, work of Hernán Ruiz, second half of century XVI, is one of the most admirable enclosures of the Spanish Architecture of the Renaissance.
The Greater Sacristía was begun to construct by Diego de Riaño and continued by Martín de Gaínza, that finishes it in 1.543 and constitutes a magnificent example of the plateresco. |
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Inside the Cathedral are the rest of Cristóbal Columbus *, which were brought of the Cathedral from Havana when becoming independent Cuba. The four heraldos that take féretro to shoulders represent each one of the kingdoms of Spanish Corona; Castile, Leon, Aragón and Navarre.
A special mention deserves the exceptional set of show windows, the majority made in century XVI.
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(*)Recientes DNA studies made in 2004 demonstrate that the rest are not of Cristobal Columbus, possibly of its brother. |
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