Vic Cathedral

In addition, in the Episcopal Museum of Vic, there are some reliefs with figures from the Romanesque portal and capitals from the cloister, of great sculptural quality.

Two hundred years later, Ramon d'Anglesola wrote a pastoral letter urging the faithful to contribute to the repair of the building.

In 1401 Bishop Diego de Heredia added a transept, and in 1585 the door of Saint John opened on its northern side.

The church, like the cathedral, had many reconstructions, but the final one was performed by the canon Guillem Bonfil in 1140, and was consecrated forty years later by the bishop Pere de Redorta.

It was in the present Square of the Cathedral, in front of the façade: on the pavement one can see the marks of its location, finally stablished as a result of recent excavations that left the foundations in the open.

The project is the work of the Vic-born architect Josep Moretó i Codina, in academic neoclassical style.In 1891, the Episcopal Museum of Vic opened on the upper floor of the cathedral's cloister.

The interior consists of three naves of the same height, separated by Corinthian pilasters (with clearly disproportionate dimensions between the architrave shards and the set of capitals and pillars), a pronounced transept, a semicircular vault deck and a dome in the cruise, and the polygonal apse.

In the first half of the 20th century, the decoration of the great white walls was commissioned by the Catalan painter Josep Maria Sert, who worked between 1926 and 1930, when he finished them and presented the project for the paintings of the vaults.

The 1936 fire, at the beginning of the Civil War (1936-1939), destroyed Sert's work - many graphic documents are preserved - and considerably damaged the vaults and the dome of the nave.

The four scenes of the cycle regarding the loss of original justice and the fall of Adam and Eve continue on the walls of the cruise.

On the lunettes of the overcrowding, his assistant, Miquel Massot i Tetas, reproduced the songs of the Beatitudes that his master had made in the decoration destroyed by the burning of 1936.

In 1947 the painter Felip Vall i Verdaguer won the competition to decorate the vaults of the cathedral but he could not secure the funding and the project did not materialize.

On the north side of the temple there are a number of Baroque chapels, which are the first part built of a project from the beginning of the 17th century to a new cathedral.

The lower cloister opens the chapter room consecrated in 1360, with a rectangular ground plan covered by an octagonal vault with a small square apse in the background.

The cathedral from the river
Ground Plan
Cathedral of Vic
Romanesque bell tower of the Cathedral of Vic. In the first place, the sculpture of Abat Oliba .
Crypt of the cathedral.
Inside the Cathedral of Vic, with the ships and paintings of Sert
Figure of Sant Pere, with a key in his hand, by Joan Seguranyes
Apse with paintings.