Catedral de Santa Maria

Catalonia


Built around a Romanesque church, Solsona's cathedral was reshaped in Gothic style during the twilight of the 13th century. It's worth wandering for its 12th-century cloisters and Gothic nave, as well as neoclassical flourishes, like a relief of St Augustine, and the 12th-century Romanesque Virgen del Claustre stone sculpture.


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