Cathedral sights in León
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Catedral
León’s 13th-century cathedral, with its soaring towers, flying buttresses and truly breathtaking interior, is the city’s spiritual heart. Whether spotlit by night or bathed in the glorious northern sunshine, the cathedral, arguably Spain’s premier Gothic masterpiece, exudes a glorious, almost luminous quality.
The extraordinary facade has a radiant rose window, three richly sculpted doorways and two muscular towers. After going through the main entrance, lorded over by the scene of the Last Supper, an extraordinary gallery of vidrieras (stained-glass windows) awaits. French in inspiration and mostly executed from the 13th to the 16th centuries, the windows evoke an…
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