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- Date of erection, 338.
- First known bishop, Laquinto, in 589.
- During Moorish domination the bishopric entirely destroyed.
- See reëstablished toward beginning XIIIth century.
- Cathedral church begun in 1120.
- Terminated in XVIth century.
- Is an unimportant village church rather than a cathedral.
- One aisle, 150 feet long, 52 feet wide, 84 feet high.
- Chief attractions: Paseo, or cloister walk; in lady-chapel, sepulchre of
XVIth century.
CUENCA
- See dedicated to the Virgin.
- Erected in 1183.
- First bishop, Juan Yañez.
- XIIIth century ogival church greatly deteriorated, in a ruinous state.
- Tower which stood on western end fell down recently.
- Length of building, 312 feet; width, 140 feet.
- Chief attractions: Cloister door, chapels.
LEON
- See dedicated to San Froilan and Santa Maria de la Blanca.
- Date of erection not known.
- First known bishop, Basilides, 252 A.D.
- During Arab invasion, see existed on and off.
- First stone of present cathedral laid in 1199.
- The building did not begin until 1250; terminated end of XIVth century.
- XIIth century French ogival.
- Vaulting above croisée fell down in 1631.
- Southern front rebuilt in 1694.[{373}]
- Whole cathedral partly ruined in 1743.
- Closed to public by government in 1850.
- Reopened in 1901.
- Total length, 300 feet; width, 130 feet; height of nave, 100 feet.
- Height of northern tower, 211 feet; of southern, 221 feet.
- Length of each side of cloister, 97 feet.
- Chief attractions: The ensemble, windows, choir-stalls, cloister.
LOGROÑO
- See dedicated to the Holy Virgin.
- Compare Calahorra.
- Santa Maria raised to collegiate church in 1435.
- Old building torn down in same year, excepting some few remains.
- Present church begun in 1435; not terminated yet.
- Enlargements being introduced at the present date.
- Belongs to Spanish-Grotesque.
- Chief attractions: Western front, trascoro, towers.
LUGO
- See dedicated to the Mother and Child.
- Bishopric erected in Vth century; first bishop, Agrestio, in 433.
- Cathedral began in 1129; completed in 1177.
- XIIth century Galician Romanesque spoilt by posterior additions.
- Building greatly reformed in XVIth to XVIIIth centuries.
- Chief attractions: The ensemble (interior), western portal, exterior of
apse.
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