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Santas Justa y Rufina, de Hernando de Esturmio (Altarpiece of the Chapel of the Evangelists in the cathedral of Seville) Saints Justa and Rufina with the Giralda, Church of Santa Ana. Seville, Andalusia. Justa and Rufina were a popular subject for Spanish artists. A 1540 retable is the earliest known piece of artwork depicting these two saints ...
The Seville Cathedral had suffered much damage during earthquakes over the centuries, and there was a popular belief at the time that intercession to the sister saints Justa and Rufina saved the Giralda, the cathedral's bell-tower, which was formerly a mosque minaret, during the 1504 earthquake. The sisters are depicted holding a model of the ...
The Giralda (Spanish: La Giralda [la xiˈɾalda]) is the bell tower of Seville Cathedral in Seville, Spain. [1] It was built as the minaret for the Great Mosque of Seville in al-Andalus, during the reign of the Almohad dynasty, with a Renaissance-style belfry added by the Catholics after the expulsion of the Muslims from the area.
She was born inside the Giralda, the bell tower of Seville Cathedral, as her father was a bell-ringer who occupied a room in the aforementioned tower. For this reason, she was known as the Hija de la Giralda (Daughter of the Giralda). Her father, Casimiro, was from Seville, and her mother, María Josefa, was from Guadalcanal. Bárbara was ...
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.
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Diana in Seville. Diana was on the top of a tower which was a replica of the Giralda of Seville. In commemoration, a replica of the Diana was made by the sculptor Ricardo Suárez and stood on the Dock of New York of the city of Seville on October 12 of 2019. [35]
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