Santa Maria del Mar an special cathedral
The Santa Maria del Mar cathedral amazes for his lack of interior columns and the sensation on having entered in his bosom is very special. One more attraction to find a good apartment Barcelona and an “ayuda alquiler” (help to the rent) to know better the city.
It has many tails or furthermore, tragedies to count: the rosette that today you can observe there is not the original one, the first one fell down on the parishioners' multitude assembled in the day of the Corpus in 1428, provoking the death of several dozens of them.
The cause of this misfortune was a tremor that took place in the Pyrenees and reached almost 8 degrees in the Richter scale.
The construction began in 1329, as it is testified by the tablets of the “Portal de las Moreras” (Mulberries’ Portal) (that gives to the “Fossar de les Moreres”). A prominent fact, which still lasts: one agrees that the work had to belong, exclusively, to the parishioners of the zone of the port and of the Barceloneta, responsible material only ones of the temple, since they were those who supported her, well with his money or with his work.
The walls, the lateral chapels and the front finished about 1650. In 1679, on the verge of the fourth section of vaults be ending, the scaffoldings caught fire and the stones suffered important damages.
Finally, on November 3, 1783 there was placed the last part of the vault and August 15 of the following year the first mass was celebrated.