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The story of Palma Cathedral

Look up at the east rose window: almost 14 meters across, it is the second-largest Gothic rose window in the world, after Strasbourg's. Building began soon after King James I took the city in 1229 and continued into the 17th century.
The oldest surviving part, the Chapel of the Holy Trinity, was completed in 1327, and the bell tower in 1498. The nave is the eighth-highest in the world, and the pillars holding up the vaults are the narrowest in the world relative to the vault size. In 1903 Antoni Gaudí began restoration works: he moved the choir stalls out of the centre of the nave, opened bricked-up windows to let in more light and designed a large canopy to hang above the altar.
He stopped in 1914 after disputes with the local authorities. Between 2001 and 2006 the Mallorcan artist Miquel Barceló covered a chapel's apse in ceramic and added stained glass meant to evoke the bottom of the sea.
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