3D print Santiago de Compostela Cathedral
A free, printable model of Santiago de Compostela Cathedral and the dense streets and buildings around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About Santiago de Compostela Cathedral
Santiago de Compostela Cathedral, formally an archcathedral basilica, belongs to the World Heritage Site of Santiago de Compostela, in Galicia, Spain. Saint James the Great, one of Jesus Christ's apostles, is reputed to be buried here, and the cathedral is counted among the surviving churches built over an apostle's tomb. Since the Early Middle Ages, pilgrims have walked the Way of St James to reach it, and the cathedral marks the route's traditional end.
Work on this building began in 1075 under Alfonso VI of Castile, with bishop Diego Peláez as patron. It was built mostly in granite, on the same plan as the church of Saint Sernin in Toulouse, and was consecrated in 1211. Its core is Romanesque, and Gothic and Baroque elements were added later, with further expansion and decoration over the 16th through 18th centuries. Pope Callixtus II raised it to an archiepiscopal see in 1120.
The Baroque facade facing the Praza do Obradoiro, designed by Fernando de Casas Novoa and finished in 1740, serves as a symbol of both the cathedral and the city. It is engraved on the reverse of Spain's 1, 2 and 5 cent euro coins, and its large glazed windows light the older Romanesque facade behind it. Master Mateo completed the Pórtico da Gloria in 1188; it is an early example of Romanesque sculpture.
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 | 25 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 31 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 40 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Domed towers with pinnacles
- Tall towers end in small domes, pinnacles and crosses. Print friendly adapts these slender tops to the print scale; Full detail keeps them, which suits a larger print. Printing slowly helps the tall tops.
- A busy west front
- The west front is packed with niches, columns and tall windows. A bigger print keeps more of them, and layers of 0.12 to 0.16 mm keep fine vertical detail crisp.
- One piece with the ground
- Santiago de Compostela Cathedral 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. Santiago de Compostela Cathedral 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
Santiago de Compostela Cathedral 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 Santiago de Compostela Cathedral 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. Santiago de Compostela Cathedral grows with the print: about 25 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.
