Cathedral sights in Seville
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After Seville fell to the Christians in 1248 its main mosque was used as a church until 1401, when it was knocked down to make way for what would become one of the world’s largest cathedrals and an icon of Gothic architecture. The building wasn’t completed until 1507. The original mosque’s beautiful minaret, La Giralda, still stands on its eastern side. There is wheelchair access to the cathedral complex.
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Seville’s immense cathedral, officially the biggest in the world, is awe-inspiring in its scale and sheer majesty. It stands on the site of the great 12th-century Almohad mosque, with the mosque’s minaret (the Giralda) still towering beside it. After Seville fell to the Christians in 1248 the mosque was used as a church until 1401. Then, in view of its decaying state, the church authorities decided to knock it down and start again. ‘Let us create such a building that future generations will take us for lunatics’, they decided (or so legend has it). The result is a cathedral measuring 126m long and 83m wide.
The entry system and timetable for visiting Seville’s cath…
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