Construction of Tortosa Cathedral began in 1347, on the remains of an earlier Romanesque cathedral, with Benito Dalguayre as architect. The article says it was completed two centuries later, while the infobox lists completion in 1757. Excavations showed the building stands on the site of the old Roman forum of Tortosa.
The article describes the style as Catalan Gothic with an eighteenth-century Baroque facade. It has three naves with chapels between the buttresses, and an ambulatory with radial chapels. Its apse has a rare heptagonal plan, based on a modular system with a 9 to 8 ratio.
The cathedral hosted the Disputations of Tortosa, after which Antipope Benedict XIII issued a papal bull forbidding the study of the Talmud. Buildings surrounded it until 2015. It is the seat of the Diocese of Tortosa.
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