SANTA MARIA DEL MAR

Rivera district

Out of the city wall Artisans, merchants, guilds Half ot it was destroyed in 1714

Main characteristics Icon of Catalan Gothic

Space and simplicity

Light

Acustic

History Built between 1329- 1383

(Berenguer de Montagud and Ramón Despuig)

Under roman necropolis

Merchants and harbor guilds (bastaixos i macips) economic contribution

Damaged and restored several times- Fire 1378 partial reconstruction- Earth quick 1427 destroyed the rose window. Replaced 1459

- Fire 1714 during the Secession war

- Fire 1936 Civil war

Architecture

Catalan Gothic - space and

volume - octagonal bell tower

- simplicity Geometry

Stained glass windows

Plant: three naves with an ambulatory

The square as a pattern

Architecture : geometry

Octogonal bell tower Octogonal pillars

Architecture : geometry

Architecture: ligt, simplicity & space

Lack of ornamentation

Lots of windows

Architecture: stained glass windows

Stained glass windows Rose windows

Curiosity Non existing bridge Barça shield

Curiosity Barcelona shield Santa Maria de les

Arenas Santa Maria del Mar

A novelist Ildefonso Falcones wrote a bestseller based on it’s construction and the XIV power fights

Literature