Girona cathedral – Is the cathedral worth a visit?
Definitely! Forming a dramatic centrepiece of the old city, the cathedral is a mighty Gothic structure built on the hillside and approached by a magnificent flight of seventeenth-century Baroque steps. Local legend has it that if a single person sits in Charlemagne’s Chair, at the back of the nave, they will remain single; if a couple sit their they will get married. This area has been a place of worship since Roman times, and a Moorish mosque stood on the site before the foundation of the cathedral in 1038. Much of the present building dates from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, but a few earlier parts can still be seen including the eleventh-century north tower and the Romanesque cloisters with their exquisite sculpted capitals.
