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The Cathedral of Toledo is a building of the classic gothic period, initiate in 1226 on the Greater Mosque of Toledo. The first teacher - Martin took care of the beginning of girola. Soon the teacher Petrus Petri stands out to him taking care of the high parts of girola, creating so famous the intercrossed arcs of Arab type. Girola would be finished definitively around year 1289.

During century XIV one advances in the construction of the ships and the covers are realised. The complex head is most excellent, by the original thing of the solution, to vault the irregular sections consequence of the curve of girola. This solution is based on the creation of triangular and rectangular sections. The rectangular outer sections come to ruin in semicircular walls and the rest in flat wall, creating a great number of chapels.

Also the polilobulados and intercrossed arcs of triforio of girola of Muslim origin are remarkable and that in spite of being realised in a city of great Muslim tradition puts a note of exotismo in this gothic cathedral of European tradition.

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