Valencia Cathedral
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Cathedral in Valencia, Spain. Valencian Gothic style
Key facts
- Location
- Valencia
- Address
- Plaza de la Almoina [ es ] , s/n
- Country
- Spain
- Denomination
- Catholic Church
- Website
- www .catedraldevalencia .es
- Status
- Cathedral , minor basilica
- Dedication
- Assumption of Mary
- Architectural type
- Church architecture
- Style
- Valencian Gothic
- Groundbreaking
- 22 June 1262
- Archdiocese
- Valencia
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- minor basilica
- Has part
- El Micalet
- Named after
- Assumption of Mary
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Country
- Spain
- Located in
- Valencia
- Dedicated to
- Assumption of Mary
- Official website
- www.catedraldevalencia.es
- Image
- Catedral de Valencia, Valencia, España, 2014-06-30, DD 160.JPG
- Height
- 55
- Width
- 53
- Length
- 94
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- Commons category
- Saint Mary of Valencia Cathedral
- architectural style
- Gothic art
- heritage designation
- bien de interés cultural
- Commons gallery
- Catedral de València
- Commons Institution page
- Catedral de Santa María de Valencia
- inception
- 1262-06-23
- commissioned by
- Archdiocese of Valencia in Spain
- directions
- Plaza de la Reina s/n
- described at URL
- eduwp.edu.gva.es/patrimonio-cultural/ficha-inmueble.php?id=1414
- native label
- església catedral-basílica metropolitana de l'Assumpció de la Mare de Déu de València
- P8168
- Brünnstein
- Christian liturgical rite
- Roman Rite
Sources (14)
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Encyclopedic overview
Nave of the cathedral Building development Chapel of the Holy Chalice Valencia Cathedral, at greater length the Metropolitan Cathedral–Basilica of the Assumption of Our Lady of Valencia, also known as St Mary's Cathedral, is a Catholic church in Valencia, Spain.
The cathedral was consecrated in 1238 by the first bishop of Valencia after the Reconquista, Pere d'Albalat, Archbishop of Tarragona, and was dedicated to Saint Mary by order of James I the Conqueror. It was built over the site of the former Visigothic cathedral, which under the Moors had been turned into a mosque. Valencian Gothic is the predominant architectural style of the cathedral, although it also contains Romanesque, French Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque and Neoclassical elements.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Valencia Cathedral” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.