13th-century Catalan Gothic
In the papal bull issued by Innocence IV and dated 1248, the Church of Santa Eulàlia held primacy over the other churches of Ciutat de Mallorca, which translated into the majesty of its building, which was then under construction, and exceeded all the rest.
The most important parish church has characteristics that distance it from the other contemporary churches, as this temple follows the precision of the patterns of 13th-century Catalan Gothic: a central nave of six bays with lower side naves, chapels between buttresses and apses with an ambulatory closed off by three polygonal and two trapezoidal absidioles. There is no crossing.
In the year 1256 the Grand General Council met to pay tribute and swear an oath of loyalty to the child Jaume as heir to the kingdom of Mallorca and the seigniory of Montpellier. And in 1298, the juries and outstanding figures of the kingdom were summoned to a general assembly to notify them of the restitution of the kingdom and properties to their legitimate king, Jaume II. The documentation from the early 14th century enables us to follow the constructive process with more certainty, since in 1305 the purchase of a house to be used as a vicarage was authorised. The Gothic building continued to be constructed throughout the 14th and 15th centuries. At the end of the 19th century, the former Baroque façade was replaced by the current Neo-Gothic one, which was inaugurated in 1903. The Gothic remains that have been preserved are particularly important, as the whole of the altarpiece of the Catlars has been preserved, the work of Gabriel Mòger, senior, as well as the image of the Salvator Mundi signed by Francesc Comes, a painter who was active in the 14th and 15th centuries, and also a splendid Sleeping Virgin by an anonymous artist. With regard to sculpture, we should highlight the Calvary relief, part of a Passio Imaginis, some tombstones and the well-known Christ of the Conquest, thought to be a donation made by King Jaume I.
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Plaça de Santa Eulàlia Palma de Mallorca - Mallorca