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CIRCULAR CODE: 30/13
ITINERARY
09.45 h Departure by bus from Tortosa, fish market (MINIMUM 20 REGISTERED).
11:00 am Guided tour of the Cathedral of Tarragona , meeting point at the Portal del Roser .
2:00 pm Lunch Restaurant LA CUINETA, located in the Upper part of Tarragona.º
4.30 pm Guided visit to the Seminary, recently remodeled, in charge of the Director.
6 pm End of the start.
P REU collegiate / associated: € 25
CHILDREN: € 15 (up to 12 years)
( The price includes: tickets, guide, transport and lunch)
NOTE : The coach service will have an increase in the price of € 15.
THE CATHEDRAL OF TARRAGONA
The Santa Iglesia Catedral Metropolitan Basilica and Primada de las Espanas, official title of the Cathedral of Tarragona, is dedicated to Santa Tecla and rises to the highest place of the city. Initiated in the 12th century, it was consecrated in 1331. Its foundations and historical evolution are parallel to the history of the city.
The Cathedral has a basilica floor, with three naves with its corresponding apse and transept. The head of the Cathedral responds to the Romanesque tradition, with half-point arches, and from the cruise it evolves with Gothic techniques. The ships are covered with vaults of crucifixes supported by cruciform pillars with back-to-back columns and capitals profusely decorated with figurative and vegetal themes. The central nave is 104 m long and 16 m wide and has a height of 26 m, which reaches 32 in the center of the dome. The side naves make 7,23 m in width.
More information: http://www.catedraldetarragona.com/
THE TARRAGONA SEMINAR
Located next to the Diocesan archive, the Archbishop's Palace, the Cathedral, the Diocesan Museum and the Biblical Museum, we are faced with the reform of a building with great respect for the historical tradition. It is located in the Acropolis of Tarragona, forming part of the historical complex of this city, recognized by Unesco in 2000. The local church of Tarragona offers a valuable space for dialogue with culture, society, a place at The service of the man of the 21st century. The rehabilitation and modernization of the 7,000-m² building, due to its deterioration over the years, has allowed the Seminar to open its doors as a Tarraconense Center.
The current building was built in 1883. A space located The Seminary of Tarragona, an institution founded in the 16th century, in 1883 moved its headquarters on the Rambla Vella to Carrer Sant Pau. The new building was built at the request of Archbishop Benet Vilamitjana i Vila (1879-1888), and its construction ended in 1886. The architect August Font i Carreras (1846-1924), disciple of Elies Rogent, He designed a monumental Neo-Gothic complex articulated around two cloisters and centered by the chapel
The Seminary building is also the headquarters of the sacerdotal residence, the Minor Seminary, the new facilities of the Superior Institute of Religious Sciences, the Library of the Pontifical Seminary with more than 100,000 volumes with an open space in the city, and will host the Pastoral delegations of Youth, Secular Apostles, Catechesis, Teaching and Biblical Animation of the Archbishopric.
The archbishop works in the city a valuable patrimony practically unknown. A space that dates back to the second century in the visualization of the Roman wall, with the Chapel of Saint Paul, commemorating the preaching of the apostle that includes the tradition in Tarragona and the opening to the public of the great Library of the Pontifical Seminary which will house more than 100,000 volumes, among which we find numerous incunabula, and that offers an important bibliographic and documentary collection dating back to the 13th century.
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