Girona Cathedral

The Girona Cathedral, moreover referred to as the Cathedral of Saint Mary of Girona is a Roman Catholic church placed in Girona, Catalonia, Spain. The cathedral's interior includes the widest Gothic nave in the international, with a width of 22 metres , and the second-widest of any church after that of Saint. Its construction became started in the 11th century inside the Romanesque architectural fashion, and persisted within the 13th century within the Gothic style. Of the authentic Romanesque edifice only the 12th-century cloister and a bell tower remain.

The second bell tower modified into finished inside the 18th century. A primitive Christian church existed right here earlier than the Islamic conquest of Iberia, and then it end up transformed into a mosque, in 717. The Franks reconquered the town in 785 below Charlemagne and the church was reconsecrated in 908. The indoors's single nave is surmounted through skip vaults, supported with the useful resource of Gothic buttresses. The facet partitions characteristic a triforium with pointed-arch stained glass windows.