The cathedral that failed
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The cathedral that failed
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#2I was expecting a discussion of [1].
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#3Great article, but I think its odd to call James I of Aragon's conquest of Mallorca a "Catalan conquest".
Poor Aragon, always getting its history rewritten by Catalan separatists and those that sympathize with them.
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#4Such sound architecture. Even when unfinished and without a roof, it's still beautiful and people want to be around it somehow, with plastic chairs and bonfires.
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#5>It is not uncommon for Gothic cathedrals to be left unfinished
Let's not forget the spectacular Sagrada Familia. It's worth so much, unfinished that I assume Paris will learn from this with the Notre Dame.
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#6>It is not uncommon for Gothic cathedrals to be left unfinished Let's not forget the spectacular Sagrada Familia. It's worth so much, unfinished that I assume Paris will learn from this with the Notre Dame.
I don't think Sagrada Familia has been "left unfinished". It is still unfinished, yes, but construction continues, it hasn't stopped as far as I could tell last time I was in Barcelona.
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#7Great article, but I think its odd to call James I of Aragon's conquest of Mallorca a "Catalan conquest". Poor Aragon, always getting its history rewritten by Catalan separatists and those that sympathize with them.
Isn't the "Crusade of the Infants of Aragon" commonly known as the "Catalan Crusade" though? The Aragonese Crusade would refer to the events related to the War of the Sicilian Vespers.
I'm no history experts though, so would be happy to be corrected, this is just my understanding of things.
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#8I was expecting a discussion of [1]. [1] http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/
Me too but have to say I was pleasantly surprised. Non-tech articles such as these are nice to have.
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#9>It is not uncommon for Gothic cathedrals to be left unfinished Let's not forget the spectacular Sagrada Familia. It's worth so much, unfinished that I assume Paris will learn from this with the Notre Dame.
Sagrada Familia is not gothic though.
It was born as a neo-gothic church but when Gaudì took over as the construction supervisor, he changed its style to liberty, giving birth to what is now known as Catalan modernism.
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