CATHEDRAL OF ST JOHN

Conquered City in 1230 this became a Christian hands and under custom, on the mosques are built new churches or cathedrals cristianizadas.  In Badajoz same thing happened on an ancient temple and a Muslim, was lifted our Lady of Se.

As the city expands and populated, the construction of another temple befitting their status. Its construction had to begin on 1240, but the real impetus was not given to the reign of Alfonso X the Wise. For a variety of circumstances it was not completed until the end of the sixteenth century.

Late Gothic, has three ships (Central highest), and cruise header, emphasizing its Altar Mayor remarkable work of churrigueresco. What chairing an image of Bautista and another of the Immaculate.  

Pillars and capitals so profusely decorated with varied reasons, being all protected by a special gate forged.

 Cruise hangs from an imposing bronze lamp, unique in Spain.

The choir closed gate guarded similar falls in the middle of the nave, cegando the overview of its structure. However, it is only for the beauty of its carvings, with 43 seats in the High Choir and 36 in the Lower. It is one of best in Spain and is crowned by a special body.

The side chapels are noted for their beautiful altarpieces especially that of Nuestra Señora de la Antigua and baptism. The vestry has a magnificent collection of Flemish tapestries.

The tower adorned windows platerescas, has a square base of 14 meters and 41 high side, being crowned by a large bell and topped by spectacular battlements.

The faculty was built between the years 1509 to 1520, replacing another smaller. It traces modest but charming and bright. The interior of a simple garden guarded by small orange and their center, a well constructed on a large aljibe.

The chapel of Christ, has a magnificent baroque altarpiece presided over by a beautiful crucified. In one of the corners, a splendid marble mausoleum, welcomes the remains of General Menacho, mortally wounded in the siege of Badajoz.

The Diocesan Museum keeps exquisite works of art, among which several paintings by Luis de Morales, the Divine. It also has the best collection of ivories Spain Filipinos, cantorales miniados fifteenth century, and a nice relief in alabaster of Settignano fifteenth century.        

After the conquest appointing a bishop Fray Pedro Perez, who, in a Synod decided to build a temple to be dedicated to St. John the Baptist, in the year 1275 the building already had its Chapel Mayor and three of his craft. Wars continued with Portugal, repeatedly interrupted construction and in some cases this work is destroyed in part for that reason. In the middle of the sixteenth century the side chapels are completed, another rises above the cloister we know today and ends his almenada and majestic tower. As early as the seventeenth century, it enriches internally and externally and ends the stalls of its magnificent chorus.

In May 1383 and took place in the temple, the real link D. Juan I of Castile and D th Beatriz, heir to the Portuguese crown. The cathedral and the city engalanaron unusually for this event, which was attended by all the Spanish and Portuguese nobility. Among the kings who visited the stresses Philip II, which went to take possession of the kingdom of Portugal, died Cardinal Enriquez. It was May 21, 1580 and chronicles indicate that the battlements were placed luminaries, and for several days there were big celebrations in Badajoz.

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