Sights in Girona
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Banys Àrabs
Although modelled on earlier Muslim and Roman bathhouses, the Banys Àrabs are a 12th-century Christian affair in Romanesque style. This is the only public bathhouse discovered from medieval Christian Spain, where, in reaction to the Muslim obsession with water and cleanliness (and a widely held view that water carried disease), washing almost came to be regarded as ungodly. The baths contain an apodyterium (changing room) , followed by a frigidarium and tepidarium (with respectively cold and warm water) and a caldarium (a kind of sauna).
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Church
Girona's second great church is downhill from the cathedral. The 17th-century main facade, with its landmark single tower, is on Plaça de Sant Feliu, but the entrance is around the side. The nave has 13th-century Romanesque arches but 14th- to 16th-century Gothic upper levels. The northernmost of the chapels, at the far western end of the church, is graced by a masterly Catalan Gothic sculpture, Aloi de Montbrai's alabaster Crist Jacent (Recumbent Christ).
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Església de Sant Feliu
Girona’s second great church is downhill from the cathedral. The 17th-century main facade, with its landmark single tower, is on Plaça de Sant Feliu, but the entrance is around the side. The nave has 13th-century Romanesque arches but 14th- to 16th-century Gothic upper levels. The northernmost of the chapels, at the far western end of the church, is graced by a masterly Catalan Gothic sculpture, Aloi de Montbrai’s alabaster Crist Jacent (Recumbent Christ).
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Museum
The cathedral's museum, through the door marked 'Claustre Tresor', contains the masterly Romanesque Tapís de la Creació (Tapestry of the Creation) and a Mozarabic illuminated Beatus manuscript, dating from 975. The Creation tapestry shows God at the epicentre and in the circle around Him the creation of Adam, Eve, the animals, the sky, light and darkness.
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Cinema Museum
The Casa de les Aigües houses Spain's only cinema museum. The Collecció Tomàs Mallol includes not only displays tracing the history of cinema, but also a parade of hands-on items for indulging in shadow games, optical illusions and the like - it's great for kids.
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Museu d’Història dels Jueus de Girona
Also known as the Centre Bonastruc Ça Porta, named after Jewish Girona’s most illustrious figure, a 13th-century cabbalist philosopher and mystic, the centre – a warren of rooms and stairways around a courtyard – hosts temporary exhibitions and is a focal point for studies of Jewish Spain.
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Museu del Cinema
The Casa de les Aigües houses Spain’s only cinema museum. The Collecció Tomàs Mallol includes not only displays tracing the history of cinema, but also a parade of hands-on items for indulging in shadow games, optical illusions and the like – it’s great for kids.
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Museu d’Art
Next door to the cathedral, in the 12th- to 16th-century Palau Episcopal, the art museum collection, which consists of around 8500 pieces, ranges from Romanesque woodcarvings to early-20th-century paintings. All the art on display comes from the Girona region.
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City History Museum
The City History Museum has displays covering everything from the city's Roman origins, through the siege of the city by Napoleonic troops to the sardana (Catalonia's national folk-dance) tradition.
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Museu d’Història de la Ciutat
The City History Museum has displays covering everything from the city’s Roman origins, through the siege of the city by Napoleonic troops to the sardana (Catalonia’s national folk dance) tradition.
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Museu Arqueològic
Museu Arqueològic has exhibits that date from prehistoric to medieval times, and include Roman mosaics and some medieval Jewish tombstones.
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Art Museum
Theart museumhas a collection that ranges from Romanesque woodcarvings to early-20th-century paintings.
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Catedral
It's worth climbing the 86 steps to this cathedral, rebuilt and altered over centuries. Inside is Europe's widest Gothic nave (23m) and in the adjacent museum, the masterly Romanesque Tapestry of the Creation. A museum ticket includes admission to a beautiful 12th-century cloister.
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