The Cathedral of Córdoba has been chosen as the best in Spain…at least on Twitter. And since mid-September, the account of historical-artistic dissemination, Telling History (@relatandohisto1), has organized a contest to determine what is the most beautiful temple in the countrywinning this unique World Heritage Site in the world.
Twitter searches for the best cathedral in Spain
Telling History is an account of more than 130,000 followers on Twitter dedicated to spreading historical and artistic curiosities. In his profile, he usually does surveys on the national heritage. Now, it has been the turn of the cathedrals of our country.For this, it has created a competition in which they have participated 94 temples between cathedrals, co-cathedrals, old cathedrals and the Sagrada Familia.Among these almost hundred temples there are some world famous such as the Cathedral of Seville or Santiago de Compostela, and others that are more unknown such as Tuy (Pontevedra) or Segorbe (Castellón).
The format of the “competition” has been 23 groups with four temples in each one (in addition to the Valencia Cathedral and the old Lleida Cathedral that went to the next phase). He best of eachBesides seven seconds most voted, they went to the second round.
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Those in charge of deciding which is the best cathedral in Spain have been the own tweeters and followers of the profile, who voted in a survey which opened at 8:30 p.m. and ended 24 hours later.
Córdoba, champion in an agonizing final
The Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba was framed in the Group M, along with that of Ceuta and Getafe, in addition to the co-cathedral of Baeza (Jaén). In this first round, Córdoba imposed with solvency, obtaining 67.7% of the votes. After this, the next rival the world-famous Basilica of the Pilar of Zaragoza, which he defeated again comfortably, unfortunately he did so with a similar percentage to the previous round (67.3% of the more than 13,000 votes). In rooms The matter was closer against a rival like the Burgos cathedralwhich he surpassed with a meager 51.3% and in the semifinals he beat the Toledo Cathedral with 58.4% of the votes.
In the finalCórdoba has facing the Cathedral of Seville. In what has been a very close tie at all times, where the Seville monument has managed to take the lead with more than 55% of the votes.
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Finally, today, Córdoba has turned the tables. For this, the interest of the profiles of Twitter users from Cordobawho have spread the contest and encouraged people to vote for a temple that, against all odds, has won with 52.2% of the more than 70,000 votes received.
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