Old Cathedral

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    Parque Calderón, El Sagrario, city centre
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Almost unnoticed on the other side of the park across from the 'new cathedral' stands the stark-white old cathedral, which was renovated for the 1985 visit of Pope John Paul II to Ecuador. Construction of this building began in 1557, the year that Cuenca was founded. In 1739, it was used as a triangulation point by La Condamine's expedition to measure the shape of the earth.