Seville Cathedral
— — a Gothic vault rising from a mosque's foundation.
Not only on a wall.
“The largest Gothic cathedral in the world, raised on the site of Seville's twelfth-century Almohad mosque. Construction began in 1401; the chapter wanted a church so great that those who came after would think them mad. The Giralda, the old minaret, still serves as the bell tower. Christopher Columbus lies under a tomb borne by four heralds in the south transept. UNESCO listed the cathedral in 1987. — from the studio
Seville Cathedral, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
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The place, in three passes.
The Cathedral of Saint Mary of the See sits in the old city of Seville, in Andalusia, southern Spain. Construction began in 1401 on the footprint of the Almohad mosque that had stood there since 1198, and the building was substantially complete by 1506. With a floor area of roughly eleven thousand five hundred square metres, it is the largest Gothic cathedral in the world by area and the third largest church of any style, after St. Peter's in Rome and St. Paul's in London. UNESCO inscribed it on the World Heritage List in 1987 together with the Alcázar and the Archivo de Indias.
The cathedral rises from the courtyard and minaret of the Almohad mosque begun under Caliph Abu Yaqub Yusuf in 1172. The Patio de los Naranjos, the old ablutions court, survives as the cathedral's north entrance, and the Giralda, completed as a minaret in 1198, was crowned with a Renaissance bell-tower in 1568 and a bronze weather-vane named El Giraldillo. The tower reaches about a hundred and four metres and is climbed by thirty-five gentle ramps rather than stairs, originally built so a guard could ride up by horse.
The cathedral and the Giralda are open most weekdays from about 11:00 to 17:00 and Sundays from 14:30, with reduced hours during liturgical seasons. The general ticket includes the nave, the Patio de los Naranjos, the Giralda climb, and the rooftop visit on request. The tomb of Christopher Columbus stands in the south transept, borne by four heralds representing the kingdoms of Castile, León, Aragón, and Navarre. The cathedral is reached most directly from Plaza del Triunfo, beside the Alcázar.