Burgos Cathedral Gothic spires
— two openwork spires that read the sky like lace.
Not only on a wall.
Burgos Cathedral Gothic spires, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.
Each tile ships in a kraft box, tied with cream ribbon, with a handwritten note from the studio if you'd like to add one.
Three or five different vistas, hung together — a chapter of places you've been, or want to go.
“Two openwork limestone spires rise about eighty-four metres above the old town of Burgos, on the meseta of northern Castile. The cathedral was begun in 1221 under Bishop Maurice and Ferdinand III, and worked on for more than three centuries. El Cid lies under the crossing. Pilgrims still come up the hill from the river along the Camino Francés. from the studio
The place, in three passes.
Burgos Cathedral, formally the Cathedral of Saint Mary of Burgos, sits at the centre of the old city of Burgos in Castile and León, about 850 metres above sea level on the northern meseta. Construction began on 20 July 1221 under King Ferdinand III and Bishop Mauricio. The bulk of the Gothic envelope was finished by the late thirteenth century; the openwork spires were added in the fifteenth century by Juan de Colonia and his son Simón. UNESCO inscribed it as a World Heritage site in 1984, the only Spanish cathedral listed on its own merits.
The cathedral is French High Gothic in plan but Castilian in detail. The western spires by Juan and Simón de Colonia rise about eighty-four metres in openwork limestone, modelled on Cologne and inserted into a Spanish silhouette. Inside, the lantern over the crossing — the cimborio rebuilt by Juan de Vallejo after the original collapsed in 1539 — is one of the great pieces of Spanish Renaissance vaulting. The Chapel of the Condestable, finished in 1494, holds some of the earliest Plateresque stonework in Castile. Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, El Cid, is buried beneath the crossing.
The cathedral stands on Plaza de Santa María in the old town, a short walk from the Arco de Santa María on the Arlanzón river. Hours run roughly 09:30 to 19:00 in summer and 10:00 to 18:00 in winter; admission for the visit circuit is around twelve euros and includes the cloister and treasury. Pilgrims on the Camino Francés cross the city on the morning stretch into Burgos and pass directly under the western towers. Madrid is about two and a half hours south by AVE high-speed train.
