Dominating the center of Seville is the city’s giant Gothic cathedral – the largest of its kind on the planet. As is so often the case in southern Spain, this magnificent tribute to Catholic dominion was built on the site of the city’s former mosque.  Perhaps more famously though, Seville’s cathedral also contains the tomb of Christopher Columbus – the Spanish explorer whose discovery of the New World in 1492 was so crucial to Seville’s economic success in the 16th and 17th centuries.

Construction of Catedral de Sevilla was a long and laborious process and was not completed until 1507, some 106 years after the cathedral’s plans were first drawn up. According to a popular legend, the original design committee of this cathedral wanted it to convey a clear message – namely, that it would be so “beautiful and so magnificent that those who see it will think we are mad”. If “mad” is read as “insane to attempt such a vast project when surely a smaller church would have sufficed”, then this gargantuan structure is definitely a success. 

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On 12/26/2019 ( a beautiful sunny day with a temperature around 21 °C), I have visited Catedral de Sevilla in Seville, Spain.  The below photos were taken during that trip.

Seville cathedral´s famous bell tower

Westside of Church

My visit was during mid-morning prayer.  You can hear the choir singing in video 1.  Note that I didn't visit the whole church, but only a small section on the westside of the Church, which is close to Av. de la Constitución.