In 1520, Segovia's rebel city council besieged the impregnable royal fortress located on a narrow stone outcrop at the far west of the city. The cathedral stood just in front of the fortress, and the rebels demolished part of the church's structure to use it as a secure stronghold. Beyond the physical damage, the revolt demonstrated the peril posed by the proximity of cathedral and castle. Unsurprisingly, it was soon decided that the cathedral would be relocated to the city's main square. Deserted by its canons and chaplains, the old church was a ruin by 1562, while its younger counterpart was slowly reaching completion. Neglect coexisted with preservation: the first step in the construction of a new cathedral was the decision to move the building's cloister—stone by stone—from the old to the new site. This paper discusses the relocation, exploring its denouement and contextualizing it within pre-modern perspectives on heritage and architecture.

1520 年，塞哥维亚的反叛市议会围攻了这座位于城市最西端狭窄石头露头上的坚不可摧的皇家堡垒。大教堂就在堡垒前面，叛军拆除了教堂的一部分结构，将其用作安全据点。除了物理损坏之外，起义还展示了靠近大教堂和城堡所带来的危险。不出所料，很快就决定将大教堂搬迁到城市的主要广场。这座古老的教堂被大炮和牧师遗弃，到 1562 年已成为废墟，而其年轻的教堂正在慢慢完成。忽视与保护并存：建造新大教堂的第一步是决定将建筑物的回廊一石一石地从旧址移至新址。