Catedral de Santa Tecla

Today: Catedral de Tarragona (Santa Tecla), Tarragona

Place: Tarragona
Kind: Cathedral
Built: 1560 to 1777
What remains: Standing
Visiting: Open to visit

The cathedral of the transition from Romanesque to Gothic, consecrated in 1331, to which chapels went on being added until the 18th century. From the period after 1492 date the organ case, designed in 1560 by Jaume Amigó, the chapel of the Holy Sacrament, remodelled between 1580 and 1592, the Renaissance chapels of San Fructuoso and San Juan, which Pere Blai began in 1592, the Baroque chapel of the Conception, of 1674, and that of Santa Tecla, of 1777. The diocesan museum occupies rooms of the cloister.

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