Cathedral · Badajoz

Catedral de San Juan Bautista

Today: Catedral de San Juan Bautista de Badajoz, Badajoz

Place: Badajoz
Kind: Cathedral
Built: 1509 to 1706
What remains: Standing
Visiting: Open to visit

A fortress-like cathedral whose present fabric was begun in 1411, after the first church was razed during the Portuguese occupation. From the 16th century come the cloister (1509 to 1520), the Plateresque window of the tower (1532), the bell stage, finished in 1542, and the choir, of 1555 to 1559; the main doorway was commissioned in 1619 and Bishop Marín de Rodezno remodelled the main chapel between 1681 and 1706. The cloister can be visited with the cathedral museum.

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