Construction begins on Genoa’s Ducal Palace, on…

Construction begins on Genoa’s Ducal Palace, on the Cathedral of San Gennaro in Naples, and on the vast Italian Gothic church of Santa Maria del Fiore, the Duomo of Florence, designed by Arnolfo di Cambio.

Construction also begins on Florence’s church of Santa Croce, planned in the Italian Gothic style, characterized by a classical preference for width rather than height.

Arnolfo may be the designer of Santa Croce, and of another of Florence’s most important Gothic church, the Church of the Badia.

Siena begins to construct the Palazzo Pubblico, a secular building designed in the Gothic style.

Construction begins on the Cathedral of Barcelona, designed in the French Gothic style but with a Spanish flavor, featuring a dwarfed clerestory and a lofty nave arcade.