Editing Girona (section)

=== Cathedral ===
[[File:Cathedral in Girona.JPG|thumb|upright|Girona cathedral during the annual flower exhibition]]
The ancient cathedral, which stood on the site of the present one, was used by the Moors as a mosque, and after their final expulsion was either entirely remodelled or rebuilt. The [[Girona Cathedral|present edifice]] is one of the most important monuments of the school of the Majorcan architect Jaume Fabre and an excellent example of Catalan Gothic architecture. It is approached in ninety steps. An aisle and chapels surround the choir, which opens by three arches into the nave, of which the pointed stone vault is the widest in Christendom (22 meters). Among its interior decorations is a retable which is the work of the Valencian silversmith Pere Bernec. It is divided into three tiers of statuettes and reliefs, framed in canopied niches of cast and hammered silver. A gold and silver altar-frontal was carried off by the French in 1809. The cathedral contains the tombs of [[Ramon Berenguer II, Count of Barcelona|Ramon Berenguer]] and his wife.