Cathedral · Almería

Catedral-fortaleza de la Encarnación

Today: Catedral de la Encarnación de Almería, Almería

Place: Almería
Kind: Cathedral
Built: 1524 to 1613
What remains: Standing
Visiting: Open to visit

Bishop fray Diego Fernández de Villalán ordered it built in 1524, after the earthquake of 1522 that destroyed the earlier cathedral; its design, presumably by Diego de Siloé, gave it battlements, towers and a flat roof for guns against Barbary pirates and rebel Moriscos. From 1555 Juan de Orea made the choir, the sacristy and the main portal (1567), and the bell tower was finished in 1613. Today the Diocesan Museum fills the towers and the bell tower has been open to the public since 2023.

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