We got off the Easter Sunday BusTouristica at the harbor, thinking we'd have lunch and then do the city's history museum and then walk back home. The museum was closing at 2:30, so we postponed that visit until later during our stay and walked back home via the Ribera and Bari Gotic neighborhoods. We got only a few steps from the museum before encountering old friend St. Mary of the Sea, a 14th century parish church, famous for having been built in one long go, funded by the little people, a basilica-shape (not cruciform), height and width exactly the same, and with the longest span between its columns of any European Gothic. Also pretty stark, but a landmark and always impressive. Vicki highly recommends Falcones' novel Cathedral of the Sea, set here.
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| Facade |
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| Helpful model; note Divine Illumination Machine |
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| In the gift shoppe |
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| In the apse, looking up |
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| Wider view |
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Interesting floor tombstones as one ambulates around; primitive, reflecting a parish, peoples' church |
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| Aargh! |
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| Nave view, Easter Sunday afternoon, 2023 |
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I noticed on a couple of previous posts that I have become "Unknown!" Oh, well. I think it is because I am logged in via our Chicago gmail account. Somehow the interior of this church reminded me of Sagrada Familia. Hmmm.
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