Cathedral · Tortosa

Catedral de Santa María

Today: Catedral de Santa María de Tortosa, Tortosa

Place: Tortosa
Kind: Cathedral
Built: 1597 to 1757
What remains: Standing
Visiting: Open to visit

The Gothic cathedral, begun in May 1347 and first consecrated in 1441. In 1597 the first stone of the baptistery and the tower was laid; in 1672 the Baroque chapel of the Virgen de la Cinta was begun, and the façade, designed in 1625, was built between 1728 and 1757 with Antoni Ferrer's more classical simplification and left unfinished. Since 2015, with the buildings in front of it demolished, the church stands open to the Ebro.

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