Location Tortosa, Catalonia District Tortosa Architectural type Cathedral Opened 1757 Phone +34 977 44 61 10 | Affiliation Roman Catholic Year consecrated 1447 Groundbreaking 1347 Province Province of Tarragona | |
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Address Portal de Palau, 5, 43500 Tortosa, Tarragona, Spain Architectural styles Gothic architecture, Baroque architecture Similar Jardins del príncep, Museo de Tortosa, Tarragona Cathedral, Mont Caro, Solsona Cathedral | ||
The Catedral of Saint Mary of Tortosa is a cathedral located in Tortosa, Catalonia, Spain and seat of the Diocese of Tortosa. The present structure is located in the center of the city's old town.
Design
Its construction began in 1347 on the remains of a previous Romanesque cathedral. The cathedral was completed two centuries later. It was designed by Benito Dalguayre and has three naves with chapels between the buttresses and an ambulatory with radial chapels. The church is constructed in the Catalan Gothic style, though the façade, from the 18th century, is Baroque.
Archeological excavations on the site revealed that the cathedral was constructed on the site of an older Romanesque church, which was itself built on the site of the old Roman forum of Tortosa.