Words fail – and I know K wants to do a long post on this – but here to be getting on with is the largest rose window in Catalunya:

And here’s another one (of about six), plus the vast C15 choir stalls and organ, a C14 coffered ceiling in the treasury, an unbelievably beautiful and well preserved 1510-ish altarpiece in one of more than a dozen side chapels, and the lovely, sun-warmed cloisters:

These pictures only scratch the surface of what isn’t so much a cathedral as a huge, rich, labyrinthine complex – all on the spot where the Roman forum once stood.

After about two hours we were seriously hungry and in need of a break, but then we discovered a whole section we’d missed, and we couldn’t bear to leave.

Then we realized we hadn’t yet seen the museum, and almost didn’t bother, which would have been a serious mistake: