St. Michael's Cathedral

St. Michael's Cathedral Basilica, also known as Veszprem Cathedral, is a spiritual constructing of the Catholic Church that serves because the cathedral of the Archdiocese of Veszprém and is positioned within the metropolis of Veszprem, Hungary. Archaeological findings indicate that already in the yr 1001 there has been a church at the website. This church is noted in files stored in the Abbey of Pannonhalma. In 1380, after a hearth, the cathedral became rebuilt in the Gothic fashion and devoted in 1400. To this period belong elements of the nevertheless existing crypt. The building turned into partly destroyed later during the Turkish profession.

In the eighteenth century the church become restored inside the Romanesque and Gothic patterns, the surviving baroque elements were eliminated inside the healing of 1907-1910. Between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the cathedral hosted musical occasions which includes concert events of works by using well-known European composers which include Mozart, Haydn and Ludwig van Beethoven. In 1981 the cathedral became increased by using Pope John Paul II to the rank of stripling basilica.