Cathedral · Zaragoza

Basílica del Pilar

Today: Catedral-Basílica de Nuestra Señora del Pilar, Zaragoza

Place: Zaragoza
Kind: Cathedral
Built: 1681 to 1872
What remains: Standing
Visiting: Open to visit

The Baroque cathedral-basilica begun in 1681 at the initiative of Juan José de Austria, from designs by Felipe Busiñac and Felipe Sánchez that Francisco de Herrera el Mozo continued; it reached its present size in 1730. Ventura Rodríguez designed the Holy Chapel of the Virgin, built between 1750 and 1765, and Goya painted the vault of the coreto in 1772. The domes went up mostly between 1796 and 1872, and the corner towers, of the 20th century, were not finished until 1961.

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