St.+Martin's+Catherdral

St. Martin's Cathedral is a church that is located in between Old Town and the base of Bratislava Castle. It is the biggest and most important church in Bratislava and was built in the 14 th  century, but took almost two centuries to complete. Originally built as part of the city's fortifications and to protect the inner parts of the city, St. Martin’s was both Baroque and Gothic styles of architecture, but was badly damaged by a fire and earthquake. After being badly damaged, an Angelo-Saxon monk named Willibrord rebuilt the cathedral to a Gothic form of architecture that still remains today.  This Cathedral is most popularly known for it being the coronation place for over 20 king and queens between the 16 th  and 19 th  century. Besides that fact, the church is also built over an old cemetery, that has been partially excavated. With thick glass laid over top of the hole you can view old skulls that lie in the hole beneath. Sometime between the last Hapsburg Emerpor's crowning and the famous composer Franz Liszt having his first coronation mass there it has become a big tourist attraction.  Now days every September they hold re-enactments of the Hapsburg’s crowning and they even have a golden replica of the Hungarian crown at the top of their tower. The Cathedral that which you can see today in Bratislava was built in 1452 an contain a large interior of 22.85 meters wide, 69.37 meters long, and 16.02 meters tall. This incredibly large interior consist of 4 chapels- the chapel St. Anne, the canons' chapel, the Gothic chapel of Sophia of Bavaria, and widow of the Czech King Wenceslas.