Saló del Tinell
Saló del Tinell is one of the ceremonial rooms of the Palau Reial Major of Barcelona, set in the Plaza del Rei in the Gothic Quarter. It is built in Gothic style and forms, together with the adjacent Chapel of Santa Àgata, part of the Museu d’Història de Barcelona. The hall was commissioned by King Pedro el Ceremonioso and built between 1359 and 1370 by the master builder Guillem Carbonell. Its rectangular plan measures 33 metres long, 18 metres wide, and 12 metres high, and it is covered by a timber framework supported by six large semicircular arches, which are carried on sculpted capitals. The interior arches are countered by buttresses, while the exterior shows windows from different periods, including 13th-century triforated openings and 14th-century rose windows. In the 16th century the hall was converted into the Real Audiencia and seat of the Inquisition. …
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