Construction
The Nativity facade was built between 1894 and 1930 and was the first façade to be completed. The four towers are each dedicated to a Saint: Matthias the Apostle, Saint Barnabas, Jude the Apostle, and Simon the Zealot.
Tower
Looking up inside one of the towers.
St. Lucia
I think this is St. Lucia.
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Fall Calendar
A close-up of the calendar. You can see this is the fall section. The man is harvesting the wheat, they're turning it in to a drink, a can't remember what the next one is doing but the last they're killing an animal for Christmas dinner.
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Close-up
Beauty and the Beast close-up
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Neat!
It was neat seeing the murals and some of them were still so complete.
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Wall piece
I believe they told us the window was cut in later and this mural was where the window was. This is a reproduction. The priginal is in a museum.
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Beauty and the Beast
The bottome part of the mural is a representation of Beauty and the Beast.
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Tons of murals
On the front and back of the arches. You can see some of the calendar and on the middle arch the king at the castle.
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Calendar
On the bottom of the arch was a calendar. Twelve paintings depicting activities that happened each month.
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Second tower murals
Very cool murals in the second tower! This is a battle.
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Next tower
Heading in to the second tower.