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Basilica Cathedral of Barcelona: The Greatest Memorial


The Basilica Cathedral of Barcelona is a memorial of enormous chronological and creative concentration. It is also a holy place of adoration and, consequently, they will always request you to value its tranquility during your trip.

Barcelona previously had an Early Christian church in the 4th century. This structure was smashed by the Moor, al-Mansur in 985. The next Romanesque church was sacred in the year 1058, and labor started on the current day Gothic structure in 1298. The West Front, nevertheless, was not completed until 1890.

Come in the Cathedral by the main entrance hall. You will rapidly find yourself surrounded in its bright obscurity and faintly perfumed air from the numerous candles. In the interior you will find some conventional but extremely elaborate chapels, wonderfully planned high-backed gospel choir pews, stamped lower-backed worktables, a well-designed retrochoir, and the superb crypt of Santa Eulàlia situated in a sepulcher under the altar. The crypt of Santa Eulàlia is a significant fourteenth century masterpiece, executed in marble and alabaster.

The building of this church started in 1298. There is a major area including an apse and three naves with an ambulatory under an octagonal showground. Two fourteenth and fifteenth century towers grow at each end of the transept. You can take a winch to the top where you get a stunning vision of Barcelona and a lock up sight at the roof and towers of the church. It is worth to go up.

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