Barcelona's cathedral

The Cathedral of the Holy Cross and Saint Eulalia of Barcelona is the Gothic cathedral and seat of the Archbishopric of Barcelona. The façade of the cathedral is in the neo-Gothic style, it is 40 meters wide and has two towers with high pinnacles, typical of this style, which together with elements of vertical lines reinforce this feeling that it rises towards the heights. The Barcelona Cathedral has three naves, but with a single apse and ambulatory, or ambulatory. The naves have five sections; The section immediately to the façade is longer than the other three, to accommodate its measurements to those of the dome that stands next to the main door. The typical Catalan Gothic structure, ordered to take advantage of the interior spaces of the buttresses, allowed a series of secondary chapels to be opened towards the interior of the Cathedral that surround the entire basilica: in the naves, these chapels are two for each section.

The current building was built during the 13th and 15th centuries on an old Romanesque cathedral, which was once built on a Visigothic church located where an early Christian basilica previously stood, the ruins of which are preserved in the basement. In this way it has been a place of worship and spirituality for thousands of years.

The imposing façade that can be seen is much more recent, from the 19th century, and the popular belief affirmed that the sculptures on the façade had been sculpted years ago and that they were hidden underground on the entrance steps of the cathedral, thus showing that a The completion of the façade has created a lot of gossip.

On non-holiday days the Cathedral is free before 11 am