Cathedral of Santa Eulalia de Barcelona

La Cathedral de la Santa Cruz and Santa Eulalia (also called Seo or Seu in Catalan) is the Gothic cathedral of Barcelona, the seat of the Archbishop of Barcelona, in Catalonia, Spain.

The present cathedral was built during XIII to XV from the former Romanesque cathedral, built in turn on a church in the days leading up to the Visigoth basilica Paleochristian, whose ruins can be seen in the basement, at the Museum of History in the City.

The completion of the imposing facade is much more modern (nineteenth century). The building is of cultural interest since November 2^nd 1929 is a National Historic-Artistic Monument.

It is dedicated to Santa Cruz and Santa Eulalia, patroness of Barcelona (now held more as the Virgen de la Merced, is patron of the diocese of Barcelona, but not the city).  A young girl that according to Catholic tradition, suffered martyrdom during Roman times. One such story is that they were exposed naked in the forum of the town and miraculously, in the middle of spring, a snow fell covering their nakedness.

The angry Roman authorities put broken glass, nails and knives into the barrel and fired (according to tradition, it would be the street Baixada de Santa Eulalia, Cuesta de Santa Eulalia). So, there are thirteen different martyrdoms, one for each year of the saint. He was crucified on a cross-shaped blade, which is the emblem of the cathedral and the diocese, as well as the iconographic attribute of the saint.

The Cathedral has a Gothic cloister in which live thirteen white geese (Eulalia was thirteen when it was executed and geese grazed in the area of Sarria, near the city).
Interior of the Cathedral.

The building of the church and cloister perfectly unite. The cathedral is 90 meters long by 40 wide, and the cloister garden is 25 meters on each side by six in width.

The cathedral is composed of three ships of the same height, the plant twice as wide as the sides, from the false circular cruise unite ambulatory, past the back of the presbytery and forming an arc, which housed nine chapels covered by pointed arches and four instalments over these chapels are Gothic windows of light that fill the apse.

There is a U-shaped gallery that is above the side chapels, and on this gallery is a false triforium, where you can see the keys to a vault at a distance of about three meters.

In the aisles there are 17 chapels, covered by six bands of warheads, with pointed arches on each entry.  There are two chapels placed between each buttress projection.   These chapels join the chapel of Saint Lucia from the outside.