More than 4.5 million visitors pay 17-38 euros each to tour the cathedral-sized church every year. The Barcelona government estimates 20 million tourists stand outside to marvel at the bell towers; Gaudi envisioned 12, one for each of Christ's disciples, but they all may never get built. ...
Sagrada Familia is the most unconventional church in Europe and a symbol of Barcelona. The cathedral, the impressive work of Antoni Gaudi -still unfinished - is one of the most visited monuments in Barcelona. The project did not belong to him at the very beginning, another architect being assi...
Granada Cathedral: Foundations for the church were laid by the architect Egas starting from 1518 to 1523 atop the site of the city’s main mosque. By 1529, Egas was replaced by Diego de Siloé, who labored for nearly four decades on the structure. The Cathedral of Valladolid: Like all the...
and all Spaniards are equal before the law, there is still the military jurisdiction (fuero militar), certain specified cases being reserved for the military tribunals, and the ecclesiastical jurisdiction (fuero eclesiaistico), by which the rights of the Church to take cognizance of certain cases...
St. Isidore Churchwas built between 1620 and 1664 by order of Empress Maria of Austria, daughter of Charles V of Germany and I of Spain, to become part of a school run by the Jesuits, which still exists today. The Royal Convent of La Encarnación is an Augustinian Recollect convent. The...
Take a look at the Church of San Pedro of the Franks with its unusual leaning tower, the Church of Santa Maria, and a Mudejar-inspired belfry known as La Parraguia de San Andres. Other interesting sights include the Collegiate Church of St Mary Major, a brick church built on the site ...
Located on the highest hill of the Collserola range at more than 500 meters above sea level, the park dominates the whole city and offers at its highest point a magnificent church, theTemple Expiatori del Sagrat Cor. Built by Enric Sagnier and his son between 1902 and 1961, the church ...
For the best view of the famous cathedral, attend the pilgrim’s mass, where a giant, silver-plated incense holder is swung from the ceiling, historically to get rid of unseemly pilgrim odor. The original church was built in the 800s, but Romanesque, Gothic and Baroque construction have mad...
Church of Santo Tomé. Though he wasn’t born here, El Greco is forever linked with Toledo. The artist painted one of his most famous works, The Burial of Count Orgaz, for Santo Tomé, his parish church. The little church, built over the ruins of an old mosque, is sweet. But most ...
There are some fine decorations on show, with the undoubted highlight being the enormous altarpiece in the church. Currently home to a community of sisters, there is a delightful little courtyard and garden for you to wander around that lies beneath the monastery’s towering walls. ...