Torre del Gallo, Catedral Vieja de Salamanca

The Old Cathedral (Spanish: ''Catedral Vieja de Santa María'') is one of two cathedrals in Salamanca,

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, the other being the

New Cathedral of Salamanca The New Cathedral ( es, Catedral Nueva) is, together with the Old Cathedral, one of the two cathedrals of Salamanca, Spain. It was constructed between the 16th and 18th centuries in two styles: late Gothic and Baroque. Building began in 1513 an ...

. The two cathedrals are joined together.

History

It was founded by Bishop Jerome of Périgord, in the 12th century and completed in Romanesque/

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style in the 14th century. It is dedicated to Santa Maria de la Sede (Saint Mary of the See). The apse houses a large cycle of 53 tableaux, 12 of which by the 15th-century Italian artist

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, depicting the life of

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and the

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. A fresco of the ''Final Judgement'' is over them.

Juan Francés de Iribarren Juan Francés de Iribarren (Sangüesa, 1699 – Málaga, 2 September 1767) was a Spanish late baroque composer. Life and career Iribarren was christened on 24 March 1699 at the Church of St. James the Great in Sangüesa. He was a choirboy in the '' ...

was organist at the Old Cathedral in 1717–1733. Its crossing tower inspired American architect H.H. Richardson's celebrated 1872 design for the central tower of

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.O'Gorman, James, "Living Architecture, a Biography of HH Richardson," Simon & Schuster, New York, NY (1997) at 146.

History

Interior gallery

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