The Cathedrals of Northern Spain / Their History and Their Architecture; Together with Much of Interest Concerning the Bishops, Rulers and Other Personages Identified with Them

by Charles Rudy

TORO

• Collegiate Church dedicated to St. Mary.
• Existence of bishopric cannot be proven, though believed to have been erected during first decade of Reconquest in Xth century.
• Is definitely made a suffragan of Zamora in XVIth century.
• Cathedral—or collegiate—erected end of XIIth or beginning of XIIIth century.
• Castilian Romanesque building.
• Chief attractions: Military aspect of building, height of walls, massive cimborio.