Rising from the water
Gothic over the bay's mirror — the Mediterranean's famous view.
Thomas Wolf, www.foto-tw.de — CC BY-SA 3.0 de · Isiwal — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Fedoce1 (Fernando Domínguez Cerejido) — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Tommie Hansen from Stockholm, Sweden — CC BY 2.0
On the mornings of 2 February and 11 November the rising sun drives the great rose's light to land exactly beneath its western twin — a double luminous figure-eight filling the cathedral at dawn. Calendar coincides? Don't miss it.
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La Seu is the Mediterranean's Gothic wonder: a cathedral rising straight from the bay's water — Europe's most famous maritime cathedral view — with a nave among Gothic's very highest (44 metres) and the great "Gothic eye": the largest original Gothic rose window, thirteen metres across, setting mornings alight. Raised over the city's mosque after 1229 across four centuries — then touched twice by the modern age: Gaudí restored the interior and hung his famous baldachin over the altar, and the contemporary Miquel Barceló clad a side chapel in fantastical oceanic ceramic that stirred the world. Each new year brings its magic event: the Festival of the Eight, when the great rose projects perfectly onto its opposite in light — and online booking spares the long summer queue.
Gothic over the bay's mirror — the Mediterranean's famous view.
The iron-and-light crown over the altar — the genius's touch.
A cracked ceramic ocean of loaves and fish — startling, dazzling contemporaneity.
Plaça de l'Almoina, 07001 Palma