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Cathedral of the Savior, Saragossa: Detail, Baroque facade and tower

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posted on 2017-07-05, 00:00 authored by G. Massiot & cie
In 1118 Saragossa was conquered by Alfonso I of Aragon (reigned 1104-1134) and repopulated with B\u00E9arnais immigrants, while the Muslims were relocated in an extramural suburb. The old cathedral, La Seo (Aragonese for 'the See'), was at one point a mosque. Reconstructed from 1119, most of the surviving fabric (restored) is 14th and 15th century. Pere Johan (died 1458) was brought from Barcelona to make the predella of the main altar in 1444, and Gabriel Joly worked on the retable (1520). The new tower, which was designed in Rome in 1683 by Juan Bautista Contini in the Baroque style, was started in 1686 and finished in 1704 with the placement of the spire. It shares co-cathedral status with El Pilar.

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Alt Title

La Seo

Date Created

1910-01-01

Date Modified

2017-07-05

Spatial Coverage

+41.65456-0.87585|Zaragoza|Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain

Temporal Coverage

before or circa 1910

Cultural Context

['Gothic (Medieval)', 'Mud\\u00E9jar']

Rights Statement

To view the physical lantern slide, please contact the Architecture Library.

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