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DSC_1139.psdbis Catedral nova de Lleida
La Catedral Nova de Lleida o Seu Nova és l'actual seu del Bisbat de Lleida. Se situa al bell mig de la ciutat, davant de l’Antic Hospital de Santa Maria, actual seu de l'Institut d'Estudis Ilerdencs. És un elegant edifici d'estil barroc amb tendència al classicisme academicista, construït entre 1761 i 1781 per substituir la Seu Vella, que havia estat convertida en caserna. Tot i les diferents destruccions i espolis que ha patit, la Seu Nova de Lleida conserva importants conjunts artístícs i decoratius, com les pintures murals, els vitralls o els ornaments litúrgics. S'hi venera també la Mare de Déu del Blau, una imatge de l'escultor Jordi Safont (1447), restaurada el 1989 i objecte de devoció per part dels lleidatans.[1]
The New Cathedral was built bet-ween 1761 and 1781 with en-do-w-ments from the people of Lleida, King Carlos III and Bishop Joa-quín Sánchez. Built in the ba-ro-que style with hints of Fren-ch academic classicism, the main entrance is topped with the coat of arms of the Borbon fa-mi-ly.
A staircase leads to three ar-ched doorways fitted with iron gates and flanked on each side by towers. Inside, the nave and two aisles are lined with slim Corin-thian columns su-pporting roun-ded arches. The choir, crea-ted in the Baroque style by Lluís Bo-nifas Massó, was destroyed du-ring the Spanish Ci-vil War (1936).
The Cathedral houses a sculp-tu-re by Josep Obiols of Our Lady of Montserrat, the patron of Ca-talonia, whom pilgrims visit on 27 April each year. Also ce-le-bra-ted on 2 Fe-brua-ry each year is the feast of the Verge del Blau (or Bruised Virgin), named be-cau-se of the damage done when its sculptor, finding that his appren-tice had completed the work to a higher artistic stan-dard than his own, threw a ha-m-mer at the finished work.
The New Cathedral is also home to the Chapter Archive, re-garded as the richest ec-cle-sias-tical ar-chive in Catalonia, with a co-llec-tion of more than 13,000 books, 16,000 parchments and a huge number of codices and ear-ly ma-nus-cripts. One of the jewels in the collection is the Lleida Bi-ble, an historic illuminated co-dex and the largest of the an-cient Spa-nish bibles in exis-ten-ce. The-re is also a periodicals library, a music archive and a collection of maps and pho-to-gra-phs.
DSC_1139.psdbis Catedral nova de Lleida
La Catedral Nova de Lleida o Seu Nova és l'actual seu del Bisbat de Lleida. Se situa al bell mig de la ciutat, davant de l’Antic Hospital de Santa Maria, actual seu de l'Institut d'Estudis Ilerdencs. És un elegant edifici d'estil barroc amb tendència al classicisme academicista, construït entre 1761 i 1781 per substituir la Seu Vella, que havia estat convertida en caserna. Tot i les diferents destruccions i espolis que ha patit, la Seu Nova de Lleida conserva importants conjunts artístícs i decoratius, com les pintures murals, els vitralls o els ornaments litúrgics. S'hi venera també la Mare de Déu del Blau, una imatge de l'escultor Jordi Safont (1447), restaurada el 1989 i objecte de devoció per part dels lleidatans.[1]
The New Cathedral was built bet-ween 1761 and 1781 with en-do-w-ments from the people of Lleida, King Carlos III and Bishop Joa-quín Sánchez. Built in the ba-ro-que style with hints of Fren-ch academic classicism, the main entrance is topped with the coat of arms of the Borbon fa-mi-ly.
A staircase leads to three ar-ched doorways fitted with iron gates and flanked on each side by towers. Inside, the nave and two aisles are lined with slim Corin-thian columns su-pporting roun-ded arches. The choir, crea-ted in the Baroque style by Lluís Bo-nifas Massó, was destroyed du-ring the Spanish Ci-vil War (1936).
The Cathedral houses a sculp-tu-re by Josep Obiols of Our Lady of Montserrat, the patron of Ca-talonia, whom pilgrims visit on 27 April each year. Also ce-le-bra-ted on 2 Fe-brua-ry each year is the feast of the Verge del Blau (or Bruised Virgin), named be-cau-se of the damage done when its sculptor, finding that his appren-tice had completed the work to a higher artistic stan-dard than his own, threw a ha-m-mer at the finished work.
The New Cathedral is also home to the Chapter Archive, re-garded as the richest ec-cle-sias-tical ar-chive in Catalonia, with a co-llec-tion of more than 13,000 books, 16,000 parchments and a huge number of codices and ear-ly ma-nus-cripts. One of the jewels in the collection is the Lleida Bi-ble, an historic illuminated co-dex and the largest of the an-cient Spa-nish bibles in exis-ten-ce. The-re is also a periodicals library, a music archive and a collection of maps and pho-to-gra-phs.