The Cathedral of Saint Mary of the See of Seville is the largest Gothic cathedral in the world Christian. The 1987 UNESCO declared World Heritage Site and the July 25, 2010 Universal Excepcional. good value since 2007 is also one of the 12 Treasures Spain.
According to tradition, the construction began in 1401, although there is documentation to the start of work until 1433. The building was conducted on the site that was left after the demolition of the former Great Mosque of Seville.
In 2008, a researcher at the University of Cantabria Begoña Ruiz Alonso plane found the earliest known of the Cathedral of Seville in the Monastery of Bidaurreta de Oñate (Guipúzcoa), was performed around 1490. This plan, once studied has provided important data on the construction of edificio.
One of his first teacher was Master Carlin works (Charles Galter), from Normandy (France), who had previously worked in other large European Gothic cathedrals and arrived in Spain are believed to escape the Hundred Years War.
On October 10, 1506 proceeded to the stone placement season at the top of the dome, which symbolically the cathedral was completed, but in fact continued to work being carried out continuously over the centuries, both interior decoration, and to add new units or consolidate and restore the damage caused by the passage of time, or extraordinary circumstances, including most notably the 1755 Lisbon earthquake that caused only minor damage despite its intensidad. In these works by the architects Diego de Riaño, Martin de Gainza and Asensio de Maeda. Also at this stage Hernán Ruiz built the last body of the Giralda. The cathedral and its units were completed in 1593.
The Metropolitan Council maintains the daily liturgy and the celebration of the festivities of Corpus Christi, the Immaculate and the Virgen de los Reyes. This temple is the body of the famous explorer Christopher Columbus and King Ferdinand III of Castile (1199-1252), canonized in 1671 as San Fernando, where Pope Clement X.
The last major work carried out occurred in 2008 and involved the replacement of 576 stones that comprised one of the great pillars of the temple, with new stone blocks with similar characteristics but with much more resistance. This difficult work was made possible through the use of innovative technology systems showed that the building suffered some fluctuations daily size of 2 cm due to the expansion of its materiales.