Open day on Mallorca Cathedral and its Museum on the ocassion of the Balearic Islands Day. The Mallorca Cathedral is one of the finest examples of Mediterranean Gothic, declared Historic-Artistic Monument in 1931.
Its construction began around 1230 by order of James I, who wanted to build a Christian church on the site of the old mosque of Medina Mayurka. The works lasted several centuries and were not terminated until the year 1601. Its Neogothic parts date from the renewal that occurred in the nineteenth century, after the earthquake in 1851 destroyed several parts of the building.
Its interior features its grand nave, the Sala Capitular (Chapter House), the choir in the Royal Chapel, the apse and the side chapels. The oldest is the Trinitat Chapel, which holds the tombs of two kings of the dynasty of Mallorca: Jaume I and Jaume III. Also the modernist elements which Antonio Gaudí introduced in the temple, and the intervention of the Mallorcan artist Miquel Barceló in the Blessed Sacrament Chapel.
The Museum is accessed via the Almoina house,so named because it was the place where the council distributed bread and alms (Almoina) to the poor and sick. The facade dates from 1529 and the interiors are decorated with Moorish murals. It has three rooms: the old sacristy, from the early fourteenth century, the old Gothic Chapter Hall, attributed to Guillem Sagrera, and the baroque Chapter Hall, designed in 1696 that saves, among other works, a fifteenth-century reliquary of the Vera Cruz.
At this point, it is worth visiting the Cathedral of Mallorca, a clear example of late Gothic style, and admire the many actions of the Modernist architect, Antoni Gaudí, with its imposing baldachin over the altathe and also the intervention carried out in the chapel of the Blessed by Majorcan artist Miquel Barceló in 2007. It is a ceramic tableau accompanied by liturgical furniture made ??of stone from Binisalem and composed of the altar, the presidential chair and two benches. The set recreates the evangelical iconography of the multiplication of the loaves and fishes and the marriage at Cana.
