Cathedral de Santa María

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Murcia's sumptuous Cathedral de Santa María was raised in 1394 on the site of a mosque. Initially Gothic in style, it was dramatically altered in 1748, when the exuberant baroque façade with its tumbling cherubs was added. A highlight of the interior is the 15th-century Flamboyant Gothic Capilla de los Vélez, its flutes and curls like piped icing sugar. The fat 92m tower, begun in 1519, took 270 years to be completed.