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Cathedral of the Sea (Spanish: La catedral del mar) is a Spanish historical drama television series that originally aired on Antena 3 from May 23 to July 18, 2018. It is an adaptation of Ildefonso Falcones 's novel La catedral del mar .
Cathedral of the Sea (Spanish: La catedral del mar) is a 2006 historical novel by Spanish author Ildefonso Falcones.The action takes place in 14th century Barcelona at the height of the city's trade and military power in the Mediterranean, during the construction of Santa Maria del Mar serving as background to the story.
Set in 14th-century Barcelona, the plot follows the story of Hugo Llor, a 12 year-old-boy who dreams of becoming a ship builder.His life is not easy and he is forced soon to part away from his family, but he gains the support and protection of a respected old man: Arnau Estanyol, the main character of Cathedral of the Sea.
The construction of Santa Maria del Mar is the background for the best-selling novel La catedral del mar (Cathedral of the Sea), by Ildefonso Falcones (2006) which was subsequently adapted into a Netflix series in 2018; The Corpus Christi Procession Leaving the Church of Santa Maria del Mar by Ramon Casas
From an ideological standpoint, he has voiced himself as a supporter of the People's Party (PP). He supported Mariano Rajoy in 2008, the then PP's prime ministerial candidate vis-à-vis the 2008 general election, in a political act at the Santa Maria del Mar church together with other leaders of the People's Party of Catalonia, like Dolors Nadal and Daniel Sirera.
The Giralda is the bell tower of the Cathedral of Seville. Its height is 105 m (343 ft) and its square base is 7.0 m (23 ft) above sea level and 13 m (44 ft) long per side. The Giralda is the former minaret of the mosque that stood on the site under Muslim rule, and was built to resemble the minaret of the Koutoubia Mosque in Marrakech, Morocco
The font beneath the tower, part of the original medieval building. Around the year 1180, Jean de Gisors, a wealthy Norman merchant and Lord of the Manor of Titchfield, gave land in his new town of Portsmouth to the Augustinian canons of Southwick Priory so that they could build a chapel "to the Glorious Honour of the Martyr Thomas of Canterbury, one time Archbishop, on (my) land which is ...
Cefalù Cathedral within the town. The cathedral was built in a long-populated area, as attested by the presence of a Roman road and a Paleo-Christian mosaic. Construction began in 1131, the apse mosaics were begun in 1145, and the sarcophagi that Roger II provided for his tomb and that of his wife were put in place the same year. [2]