Hvar Cathedral

The Cathedral of St. Stephen in Hvar (Croatian: Katedrala Svetog Stjepana) is a Roman Catholic cathedral in the city of Hvar, on the island of Hvar in Split-Dalmatia County, Croatia.

Cathedral of St. Stephen
Cathedral of St. Stephen in Hvar
Cathedral of St. Stephen from Pjaca
Country Croatia
DenominationRoman Catholic
Architecture
StyleRenaissance

Location

The most impressive building in Hvar is definitely the Cathedral of St. Stephen, standing on the eastern side of the city square, at the far end of the Pjaca, where two parts of the city meet. It was built on the site of an early 6th-century Christian church and a later Benedictine convent of St Mary.[1]

Architecture

The shrine of today's cathedral is the remains of a Gothic church from the 14th century. Its 15th-century pulpit, the stone polyptychs of St. Luke and The Flagellation of Christ, as well as the late Gothic crucifix, have all been preserved. St. Stephen's is a rather unremarkable triple-aisled church with a nice 17th-century bell tower,[2] and is a harmonious synthesis of the Renaissance, manneristic and early Baroque styles so typical of the Dalmatian architecture of the 15th and 16th centuries.[1]

See also
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References
  1. Profile Archived 2008-08-03 at the Wayback Machine, hvar.hr; accessed 26 November 2015.
  2. Cathedral profile, nytimes.com; accessed 26 November 2015.

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