santa maria del mar. comenius 2012-2014. maria aurèlia capmany
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Presentation about Santa Maria del Mar, historic church in Barcelona. It is made by students of secondary school in Cornellà de LlobregatTRANSCRIPT
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