{"id":20975,"date":"2022-05-16T11:39:32","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T11:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naturanda.com\/the-cathedral-and-giralda-of-seville\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T11:52:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T09:52:15","slug":"the-cathedral-and-giralda-of-seville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naturanda.com\/en\/the-cathedral-and-giralda-of-seville\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cathedral and Giralda of Seville"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Built in the 15th century, it is the largest Christian temple, in decadent Gothic, in the world. Her real name is Santa Mar\u00eda de la Sede<\/strong> . <\/span><\/p>

It has been declared a World Heritage Site since 1987<\/strong> and is one of the most visited in the city of Seville.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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It is located on the land that was once occupied by the Great Mosque of Seville<\/strong><\/a> , which was converted to Christian worship after being the city conquered by Fernando III “El Santo”.<\/span><\/p>

Work on its construction began in 1401 after that meeting in the Corral de los Olmos of the living forces of Seville, pronouncing that famous phrase: “Let’s make a church so beautiful and so great<\/strong> that those who see it carved will consider us crazy.” \u201d.<\/span><\/p>

Although it began to be built between 1401 and 1402, there is no record of documents that tell us about this beginning of works until 1433 on the old aljama mosque, two very emblematic parts of it are currently preserved, such as the Patio de Los Naranjos and the Giralda, another of the most visited monuments in Seville.<\/span><\/p>

Of its builders we know some of the names, and men, who participated in the construction, such as Charles Galter<\/strong><\/a> -also called Maestre Carl\u00edn- who, as a good master stonemason, came from the area of Normandy in France and had great experience in the construction of great cathedrals.<\/span><\/p>

He arrived in the city after leaving his country due to the Hundred Years War and it has been known that in the month of October 1506<\/strong> , on the 10th, he placed the last stone in the dome of the Cathedral, that stone that put an end to the construction.<\/span><\/p>

In this way the completion date (1533) is known and the start, although doubtful, is estimated to have been at the beginning of the 15th century.<\/span><\/p>

In 1755 it happened that the Lisbon earthquake<\/strong> affected the construction and minor damage was produced. <\/span><\/p>

To solve all of them, the architects Diego de Ria\u00f1o, Mart\u00edn de Gainza and Asencio de Maesa intervened in the reform and reconstruction, as well as, related to the complex, Hern\u00e1n Ruiz who worked in the second body of the Giralda.<\/span><\/p>

The cathedral dependencies were completed in 1593<\/strong> as well as the cathedral auctions. <\/span><\/p>

Equally important in the construction of the cathedral, in its decorations, in the hidden symbology, Lorenzo Mercadante from Brittany<\/strong> intervenes decisively, leaving a series of clues on the doors where he intervenes with a message to be discovered.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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