Camino Photo of the Day: Catedral de Santa María de Astorga

Following our tour of the museum, Francine headed for a nap at the albergue, and I headed for the Cathedral with its own museum. All three of these buildings front on the same plaza. Since all the buildings are crowded close in, there’s not really a good vantage point to photograph the Cathedral. There might be a decent vantage point from the roofs of the buildings across the narrow plaza, but I wasn’t about to investigate that option in the rain.

The Cathedral itself is a not displeasing mish-mash of styles and building materials:

The edifice was begun in 1471, within the same walls of its Romanesque predecessors from the 11th-13th centuries. The construction lasted until the 18th century, thus to its original Gothic style appearance were added elements from later styles, such as the Neo-Classicist cloister (18th century), the Baroque towers, capitals and the façade, and the Renaissance portico. (source)

Date: 20 April 2016
Place: Astorga (Castilla y León, Spain)