The Cathedral of Toledo

The Primatial Cathedral of Saint Mary of Toledo, otherwise Toledo Cathedral, is a Roman Catholic church and one of the three 13th-century High Gothic cathedrals in Spain. The temple was actually built on top of a Muslim mosque, and before that it had been a church in the sixth century during the reign of the Visigoth King Recaredo. King Ferdinand III and the archbishop began building the new church in 1226. The fifteen chapels of the ambulatory were subsequently completed. In the year 1300 the transept nave was completed, although work continued on the church for the next two centuries. The spectacular incorporation of light and the structural achievements of the ambulatory vaults are some of its more remarkable aspects.

The structure of the building is greatly influenced by the French Gothic style of the 13th century, but adapted to Spanish taste. It measures 120 metres (390 ft) in length by 59 metres (194 ft) in width and 44.5 metres (146 ft) high. It consists of five naves with transept and double ambulatory.

More information: https://www.catedralprimada.es/