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Murcia Cathedral

Murcia Cathedral, known as the Holy Cathedral Church of St Mary, is the main church and seat of the Diocese of Cartagena, located in Plaza del Cardenal Belluga, in the heart of Murcia's old town. Consecrated in 1467, it combines Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque and Neoclassical styles. Its bell tower, built between 1521 and 1793, stands 93 metres tall (98 with the weather vane) and is the second tallest in Spain after Seville's Giralda; guided tours of the tower run daily from the Cathedral Museum. The main façade, or imafronte, is considered a masterpiece of Spanish Baroque. Inside, with a Latin-cross plan, three naves and an ambulatory, there are twenty-three chapels, most notably the Chapel of the Vélez family, in Flamboyant Gothic style and declared a National Monument in 1928, and the Junterón Chapel, one of the great works of the Spanish Renaissance. In the main chapel is the funerary urn holding the heart and entrails of Alfonso X the Wise. The cathedral was declared a National Monument in 1931. The cathedral museum preserves remains of the Gothic cloister and of the former mosque. The tower houses twenty bells, almost all from the 18th and 19th centuries, each with its own name, and the 14th-century Moorish Bell is kept in the museum.

Things to do at Murcia Cathedral: 1 missions

• Take the guided tour of the cathedral towerTake part in the guided tower tours run daily from the Murcia Cathedral Museum.

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