Barcelona Guide

Catedral de la Santa Creu i Santa Eulalia

The Gothic cathedral is also known under the name of Barcelona Cathedral, the seat of the Spanish archbishop. Located at Plaça de la Seu, the Barri Gotic district. Cathedral was built from the 13th to 15 century than the rest of the original chapel Visghotic. The construction of the cathedral began Catalan King Jaume II. in 1298 and was completed in 1448.

The western facade was established in the 19th century yet. Three-nave church with five lanes, which divide the building from the outside, is dedicated to Saint Eulalia. Young virgins, who according to Catholic tradition died a martyr and patron saint of Barcelona. St. Eulalia, whose death purr legend to close in a barrel with knives and rolling by inflame Roman crowd the streets of Barcelona, is buried in the alabaster sarcophagus in the crypt under the main altar of the chapel. In the cloisters around the fountain in the Court of St.. George, where you can observe in the shade of orange 13 white geese.

Legend has it that have been kept here for 5 centuries and symbolize either martyred Eulalie age or 13 ways in which the Romans had tortured her. Barcelona residents still believe that the holy Eulalie of them holds a protective hand and what's more, the geese, kept close to the Catedral de la Santa Creu i Santa Eulalia, their honk always warn of approaching danger.