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Jaca - Catedral de San Pedro

Jaca - Catedral de San Pedro
The Jaca Cathedral is one of the oldest of the Iberian peninsula, dating back to the 1070s. The building, that was altered many times later, was commissioned by King Sancho Ramírez, who established an episcopal seat in Jaca, then the capital of the Kingdom of Aragon.

The Romanesque cathedral was completed around 1130. In 1395 a blaze destroyed large parts of the cathedral. The ceiling had to be reconstructed in the following decades and got renovated in the 16th century, when the aisles were added and the nave got enlarged.

The cloister, adjoining the cathedral hosts the "Museo Diocesano de Jaca".

Here is the museum´s website:
www.diocesisdejaca.org/index.php/museo-diocesano-de-jaca

I had once admired the capital depicting "King David and his musicians" on the southern porch of the cathedral. This porch was added to the structure later, "reusing" capitals that probably had been before part of a Romanesque cloister. I did not know at that time, that I saw a copy.
This is the original, a masterpiece of the Master of Jaca. King David is accompanied by an orchestra of 11 musicians, playing different instruments. Again the right side (just like the previous upload) but from a different pov, as now all musicians can be seen. One of them play a tubelike curved object.

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