3D print the Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar
A free, printable model of Zaragoza's Our Lady of the Pillar basilica, with its cluster of domes and four slender towers, beside water and dense city streets, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar
This Catholic church in Zaragoza, in Aragon, is a cathedral basilica named for Our Lady of the Pillar. It honors the Blessed Virgin Mary under that title, and it is reputedly the very first church dedicated to Mary. Local traditions trace its roots to an apparition of Mary to Saint James the Great, reported as the only apparition of Mary before her reputed Assumption. It numbers among Zaragoza's two minor basilicas and shares co-cathedral status with the nearby La Seo de Zaragoza.
It is a Baroque building, mostly built between 1681 and 1872. The Cabildo of Zaragoza later commissioned the architect Ventura Rodríguez, who gave the building its dimensions of 130 m long by 67 m wide, with eleven cupolas and four towers. The Holy Chapel, built by Rodríguez in 1754, holds the venerated image of the Virgin, and the domes around it carry frescoes by Francisco Goya. The wooden statue is 39 cm tall and stands on a column of jasper. Twelve large pillars hold up the vaults over the nave and aisles.
Fire damaged an earlier Romanesque church there in 1434, and a Gothic-style church followed in the 15th century. Three bombs fell on the church in the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939), and none exploded. Mary's feast under this title falls on October 12, the same date as the Día de la Hispanidad. On each of his two visits, Pope John Paul II praised Our Lady of the Pillar as Mother of the Hispanic Peoples. Its status as a Bien de Interés Cultural dates from 1904.
How it prints
Make this print opens the generator on a 600 m square around the landmark. Buildings print at close to true scale, so the landmark grows with the print size.
| Print size | Landmark height | Scale |
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| 160 mm default | 26 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 33 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 42 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Four slender towers
- Four towers with tall, narrow openings and bulb-shaped caps rise at the corners. Print friendly adapts these thin parts to the print scale; Full detail keeps them, best on a larger print, printed slowly with good cooling.
- A cluster of domes
- The roof is covered in domes, with a larger one in the middle. Layers of 0.12–0.16 mm keep their curves smooth.
- One piece with the ground
- The Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar is joined to the ground in the exported file, and the four-side check found no floating parts, so nothing needs gluing.
- Pick the detail for your nozzle
- In the Buildings settings, set Landmark detail to Print friendly to adapt thin parts and small details to the print scale. Full detail keeps every modeled feature, for larger prints or a finer nozzle.
- Colors
- Buildings, roads, water and ground arrive as separate filament slots in the 3MF. The Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar takes the building color.
- File format
- You get a 3MF for Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer or PrusaSlicer. Any of them can save it as STL if you need one.
About this model
The Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar is one of more than 2,300 landmark models in Mini Skyline. They are made with AI, and each one is checked from four sides in its real surroundings before release. Everything around it is built from OpenStreetMap and Overture map data. If you would rather print the shape from map data, turn off Landmark models in the Buildings settings.
Common questions
Is there a Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar STL I can download?
Mini Skyline builds the file for you in your browser and exports 3MF, which every major slicer opens. If you need an STL, open the 3MF in your slicer and export it from there.
How big can I print it?
Any print size from 40 mm across. The Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar grows with the print: about 26 mm tall on the default 160 mm print. For a model larger than your printer bed, Project Mode splits the area into tiles.
Is it free?
Yes. Generation runs in your browser, with no account and nothing behind a paywall.
