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Mar 15, 2017 · Dominating the centre of Seville is the city’s giant Gothic cathedral – the largest of its kind on the planet. As is so often the case in southern Spain, this magnificent tribute to Catholic dominion was built on the site of the city’s former mosque; it was intended not only as a display of the prestige and wealth Seville had accrued by the time of its completion in 1507, but also of the ...
Magdeburg Cathedral, officially called the Cathedral of Saints Maurice and Catherine, is a Protestant cathedral in Germany and the oldest Gothic cathedral in the country. It is the proto-cathedral of the former Prince-Archbishopric of Magdeburg. Today it is the principal church of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany. The south steeple is 99.25 m tall, the north tower 100.98 m, making it ...
Gratefully built with ... Plaque with Christ Receiving Magdeburg Cathedral from Emperor Otto I ... Beeson, Nora B., ed. Guide to The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New ...
Apr 15, 2019 · The cathedral was built on a small island called the Île de la Cité, in the middle of the Seine. Construction began in 1163, during the reign of King Louis VII, and was completed in 1345.
Jan 27, 2017 · Here is a brief history of the building that Victor Hugo referred to as a ‘light and delicate marvel’. Strasbourg Cathedral is over one thousand years old. Construction of the original, on the exact site of a Roman temple, was initiated in 1015 but later destroyed by a fire. The second wave of construction started in the 12th century, when ...
The cathedral is located in the city of Magdeburg, capital of the federal state of Saxony-Anhalt, in Germany, and is also home to the tomb of Otto I of Germany. The first church built in the year 937 on the location of the current cathedral was the Abbey of Saint Maurice, dedicated to Saint Maurice.
