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[et_pb_section admin_label=”Section” fullwidth=”on” specialty=”off” transparent_background=”on” background_color=”#1b1b1b” allow_player_pause=”off” inner_shadow=”off” parallax=”on” parallax_method=”on” padding_mobile=”off” make_fullwidth=”off” use_custom_width=”off” width_unit=”on” make_equal=”off” use_custom_gutter=”off” module_id=”marquee” module_class=”big animated w_bg”]\n[et_pb_fullwidth_header admin_label=”Header – The Bell Tower” title=”The Bell
Tower” subhead=”The Miguelete and the Bells” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”center” header_fullscreen=”off” header_scroll_down=”off” background_overlay_color=”rgba(27,27,27,0)” parallax=”off” parallax_method=”off” content_orientation=”center” image_orientation=”center” custom_button_one=”off” button_one_letter_spacing=”0″ button_one_use_icon=”default” button_one_icon_placement=”right” button_one_on_hover=”on” button_one_letter_spacing_hover=”0″ custom_button_two=”off” button_two_letter_spacing=”0″ button_two_use_icon=”default” button_two_icon_placement=”right” button_two_on_hover=”on” button_two_letter_spacing_hover=”0″ scroll_down_icon=”%%1%%”]\n[\/et_pb_fullwidth_header]\n[\/et_pb_section]\n[et_pb_section admin_label=”Section” fullwidth=”off” specialty=”off” module_id=”row-1″ transparent_background=”on” background_color=”#ffffff” allow_player_pause=”off” inner_shadow=”off” parallax=”off” parallax_method=”off” padding_mobile=”off” make_fullwidth=”off” use_custom_width=”off” width_unit=”on” make_equal=”off” use_custom_gutter=”off”]\n[et_pb_row admin_label=”Row” make_fullwidth=”off” use_custom_width=”on” width_unit=”on” use_custom_gutter=”off” custom_padding=”||0px|” padding_mobile=”on” allow_player_pause=”off” parallax=”off” parallax_method=”off” make_equal=”off” parallax_1=”off” parallax_method_1=”off” column_padding_mobile=”on” custom_width_px=”980px”]\n[et_pb_column type=”4_4″]\n[et_pb_number_counter admin_label=”1381″ number=”1381″ percent_sign=”off” counter_color=”#990000″ background_layout=”light” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]\n[\/et_pb_number_counter]\n[et_pb_text admin_label=”Text – The Valencia Cathedral is the seat of the Archbishop of Valencia and the mother of all churches…” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”center” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” custom_margin=”||0px|” custom_padding=”||0px|” max_width=”767px”]<\/p>\n

In 1381, Andreu Juli\u00e1<\/strong> began the construction of this emblematic monument of the city of Valencia. During many centuries it was called \u201cCampanar Nou\u201d (New Bell Tower)<\/em> or \u201cCathedral Bell Tower\u201d,<\/em> to differentiate it from \u201cCampanar Vell\u201d (Old Bell Tower),<\/em> a Romanesque square tower located on Barchilla Street, and of which few wall remains can be visited in the Cathedral Museum.<\/p>\n

After Juli\u00e1, the following architects were, Josep Franch<\/strong> and Pere Balaguer.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Little by little its name was transformed into \u201cTorre del Micalet\u201d (The Micalet Tower)<\/em>, due to the great bell of the hours, which has served to name, by metonymy, the whole. Originally it was a free-standing tower that was joined to the Cathedral at the end of the 15th century when the central nave was extended.<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_text]\n[\/et_pb_column]\n[\/et_pb_row]\n[et_pb_row admin_label=”Row” make_fullwidth=”off” use_custom_width=”on” width_unit=”on” use_custom_gutter=”on” padding_mobile=”on” allow_player_pause=”off” parallax=”off” parallax_method=”off” make_equal=”off” parallax_1=”off” parallax_method_1=”off” column_padding_mobile=”on” custom_padding_tablet=”17px|||” custom_padding_last_edited=”off|tablet” custom_width_px=”980px” parallax_2=”off” parallax_method_2=”off” gutter_width=”2″ module_class_1=”col-1 ae-pt-1″ module_class_2=”col-2 ae-pt-2″ module_class=”cm-column int_row_2″]\n[et_pb_column type=”3_4″]\n[et_pb_image admin_label=”Image – The bell tower” src=”https:\/\/catedraldevalencia.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/img-the-micalet-from-the-floor.jpg” show_in_lightbox=”on” url_new_window=”off” use_overlay=”on” animation=”bottom” sticky=”off” align=”center” force_fullwidth=”off” always_center_on_mobile=”on” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” hover_icon=”%%51%%” alt=”The bell tower.” title_text=”The bell tower.”]\n[\/et_pb_image]\n[et_pb_text admin_label=”Epigraph – View of the Plaza de la Reina from the bell tower” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]<\/p>\n

The bell tower.<\/p>\n

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Last body of the tower.<\/p>\n

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It has access through an angular door adorned with archivolts and its perimeter being equal to its height, of Catalan architectural tradition, soberly decorated on the outside by the prismatic buttresses of the edges and the fine mouldings that mark the different levels of the floors.<\/p>\n

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The Miguelete seen
from its entrance.<\/p>\n

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Spiral staircase
of the Miguelete.<\/p>\n

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Miguelete stair
window.<\/p>\n

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Bell room open by eight windows.<\/p>\n

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The first body is solid, leaving only the helical stairwell; the second body has a vaulted enclosure, which is the old \u201cPres\u00f3\u201d<\/em> or Cathedral Refuge with a single exterior window; the third body is the \u201cCasa del Campaner\u201d (House of the bell-ringer),<\/em> another vaulted enclosure similar to the previous one although larger and with two large windows.<\/p>\n

The upper floor is the bell room open by eight windows, seven of them occupied by the bells. The eighth storey corresponds to the spiral staircase, which becomes narrower from here.<\/p>\n

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Bell wall with the Micalet bell.<\/p>\n

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In 1425, the tower was already finished up to the terrace, leaving Antoni Dalmau’s<\/strong>, needle project unfinished, kept in the City Historical Museum<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The bell of the hours hung from a wooden structure, located on stone pillars, similar to the one existing in many other bell towers of the Crown of Aragon.<\/p>\n

The current steeple is an attachment built between 1660 and 1736.<\/p>\n

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Stone railing built in 1983.<\/p>\n

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Detail of the bell “Miguelete”.<\/p>\n

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Gargoyles on the Miguelete tower.<\/p>\n

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It had an elegant fretwork cresting or \u201capitrador\u201d<\/em>, which served as a crown, and which was razed in the 18th century., being replaced first by a wooden railing and in the 19th century by a metal railing until the restoration of 1983, when a stone one was built, similar to the original one.<\/p>\n

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<\/i> More information on the exterior tour<\/a>, the bell tower<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Official website of the Bell-ringers of the Valencia Cathedral<\/h3>\n

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