Cathedral of Santa Maria

The Cathedral of Santa Maria of Palma, all the more ordinarily alluded to as La Seu, is a Gothic Roman Catholic house of God situated in Palma, Majorca, Spain. Worked by the Crown of Aragon on the site of a Moorish-period mosque, the house of God is 121 meters in length, 55 meters wide and its nave is 44 meters tall. By method for examination, the stature of the focal nave achieves 33m in Notre Dame de Paris, 38m in Reims, 42m in Notre-Dame d'Amiens and 48m in Saint-Pierre de Beauvais, the most astounding of every Gothic house of prayer.

Structured in the Catalan Gothic style yet with Northern European impacts, it was started by King James I of Aragon in 1229 however just completed in 1601. It sits inside the old city of Palma on the previous fortress of the Roman city, between the Royal Palace of La Almudaina and the episcopal royal residence. It additionally disregards the Parc de la Mar and the Mediterranean Sea.

In 1901, 50 years after a reclamation of the house of God had begun, Antoni GaudI was welcome to assume control over the undertaking. While a portion of his thoughts were received – moving the choir slows down from the center nave to be nearer to the sacrificial table, and a huge overhang – Gaudl deserted his work in 1914 after a contention with the temporary worker. The arranged changes were basically restorative as opposed to basic, and the undertaking was dropped before long.