ALMUDENA CATHEDRAL, Exterior
- Audio File length: 2.28
- Author: STEFANO ZUFFI E DAVIDE TORTORELLA
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Language: English / USA
Hi, I'm Ed, your personal guide. Together with MyWoWo, I'd like to welcome you to one of the wonders of the world.
Today I'll lead you through Almudena Cathedral.
Almudena Cathedral is one of Europe's most beautiful churches from the 1900s!
You're standing in Plaza Juan Pablo II, dominated by the statue of Pope John Paul II and surrounded by four fountains and four nineteenth-century street lamps. The cathedral's entrance is located in the lateral façade which faces Calle Bailén.
Even though it wasn't consecrated until the early nineties, consider the fact that it took over a century to build this cathedral: the foundation stone was laid by King Alfonso XII at the end of the 1800s.
The desire to build a religious building that was more important than all the others in Spain, a bit similar to how the Royal Palace was the seat of temporal power, had already been held by the early rulers of the Bourbon dynasty....