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Seville Cathedral

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Seville Cathedral, formally the Cathedral of Saint Mary of the See, is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Seville, Andalusia, Spain, begun in 1402 and largely completed by the early sixteenth century. Its design fuses Gothic, Moorish, and Renaissance elements across a structure 135 meters long and 100 meters wide, with a central nave rising 36 meters, and it incorporates the Giralda, a former Almohad minaret from 1184 that was converted into a 104.5 meter bell tower. On completion the cathedral surpassed Hagia Sophia as the world's largest cathedral, ending that building's thousand year claim to the title, and it preserves the orange tree courtyard, the Patio de los Naranjos, from the mosque that stood on the site before it. UNESCO listed the cathedral as a World Heritage Site in 1987 together with the adjoining Alcazar palace, and it holds the tomb of Christopher Columbus along with numerous Spanish monarchs and religious figures.

Facts
Building TypeSourced to the subject's own account
Cathedral 1
LocationSourced to the subject's own account
Seville, Spain 2
Completed YearSourced to the subject's own account
1519 1
Height (m)Sourced to the subject's own account
105 2
Classification
Standing StatusSourced to the subject's own account
Standing 1
Building Type
Building Type (category)Sourced to the subject's own account
Cathedral 1
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Cathedral, Concepts

Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.

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Source Seville Cathedral (Wikipedia)
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1. Seville Cathedral (Wikipedia)
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  • Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article (standing)
    Seville Cathedral, formally the Cathedral of Saint Mary of the See, is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Seville, Andalusia, Spain, begun in 1402 and largely completed by the early sixteenth century. Its design fuses Gothic, Moorish, and Renaissance elements across a structure 135 meters long and 100 meters wide, with a central nave rising 36 meters, and it incorporates the Giralda, a former Almohad minaret from 1184 that was converted into a 104.5 meter bell tower. On completion the cathedral surpassed Hagia Sophia as the world's largest cathedral, ending that building's thousand year claim to the title, and it preserves the orange tree courtyard, the Patio de los Naranjos, from the mosque that stood on the site before it. UNESCO listed the cathedral as a World Heritage Site in 1987 together with the adjoining Alcazar palace, and it holds the tomb of Christopher Columbus along with numerous Spanish monarchs and religious figures.
  • Wikipedia infobox completion_date/completed/built field (1519)
    completion_date/completed = 1519
  • Wikipedia infobox building_type field (Cathedral)
    The Cathedral of Saint Mary of the See (Spanish: Catedral de Santa María de la Sede), better known as Seville Cathedral (Catedral de Sevilla), is a Catholic cathedral in Seville, Andalusia, Spain. It was registered in 1987 by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site, along with the adjoining Alcázar palace complex and the General Archive of the Indies. It is one of the largest churches in the world and th
  • In Style: Gothic Architecture, infobox architectural_style field: Gothic, Moorish, and Renaissance
  • In Style: Moorish Architecture, infobox architectural_style field: Gothic, Moorish, and Renaissance
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2. Seville Cathedral (Wikidata)
Wikimedia Foundation
  • Wikidata height (P2048) statement: 105.0
    Wikidata item Q231606, property P2048 (height): 105.0 m (converted to metres, preferred/normal rank, non-deprecated)
  • Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Seville, Spain
    Wikidata item Q231606, property P131/P17 (location): Seville, Spain
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