CATEDRAL DE LA SEO DE URGEL (R)
Description
The construction of Urgel’s Cathedral was initiated towards 1116-1122 by the bishop San Odón, today employer of the city. The temple is of enormous dimensions emphasizing, for his peculiarity and singularity, the semicircular gallery of small arches that is situated on the cylinder absidial. This gallery does not have precedent in the Iberian Peninsula, being able to meet others similar in countries as Germany, Italy and France, all of them following the Lombard style.
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