Spain - Jaén Cathedral (extension of the Renaissance Monumental Ensembles of Úbeda and Baeza)

This is a proposal for a modification to the boundaries of the Property inscribed in 2003 on the World Heritage List (Decision 27 COM 8C 42) and identified as “Renaissance Monumental Ensembles of Úbeda and Baeza” to include the monument of the Cathedral of the Asunción in Jaén. After the experience of Úbeda and Baeza, Andrea Vandelvira began work on the construction of Jaén Cathedral. He started from the gothic temple whose final construction was restricted by the medieval wall of the city. The Cathedral is located in the Santa María Square, in the heart of the historic centre of Jaén. It is built on the plot of the old mosque of the hispanic-muslim city and has a surface area of 8.400 m2.