Church of Santa Cruz (Cádiz)
Cádiz, Andaluzia, Spain
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The Old Cathedral of Cádiz, or Church of Santa Cruz, located in the city of Cádiz (Andalusia, Spain) is a construction dating from 1262-1263 and was rebuilt in Mannerist and Baroque styles in the 18th century.
This cathedral was built by order of King Alfonso X of Castile, El Sabio, at the time of Pope Urban IV, although it has had intermittent periods of worship. It was considered a cathedral until 1838, when the city's cathedral was moved to the New Cathedral. Since that date, 1838, it is considered solely a church.
The two existing cathedrals in Cádiz are located in different distances separated by the Old Episcopal Palace and the Bishop's Hall.
Inside
In the 17th century building, it was built in a Mannerist and Baroque style.
It has a rectangular floor plan (living room), with a false transept and three naves separated by Tuscan columns and semi-circular banded arches and arched vaults. The transept is covered with a hemispherical dome on pendentives.
Exterior
The exterior of the roof is tiled in various colors. The exterior of the vaults is covered with tiles of various colors from the early 17th century.
The bell tower is built in the 15th century, separated from the rest of the church, it is covered with a spire of polychrome tiles. Constituted in its first two floors by a nucleus of stairs, communicating on the third floor with the Contaduría house (headquarters of the cathedral museum) being rectangular in plan finished in a spire, also covered with tiles.
Works housed inside
To the left of the main altar you can see an old shield of Guipzcoa
and to the right that of Vizcaya, coming from the disappeared Chapel of the Vizcaínos
In the second half of the 17th century, the enrichment of the Cathedral of Santa Cruz came when the population grew and the city achieved great prosperity with the commerce of the Indies.
Altarpiece of the main altar, work of Alejandro de Saavedra
The chapel of the Genoese,
The chapel of the Vizcaínos,
The chapel of relics,
The Sagrario tower (second half of the 18th century), the work of Torcuato Cayón,
Pictures and images due to the patronage of Bishop Alonso Vázquez de Toledo,
Side cover of Genoese marbles by Andreoli.
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