Cathedral · Orense

Catedral de San Martín

Today: Catedral de San Martiño de Ourense, Orense

Place: Orense
Kind: Cathedral
Built: 1499 to 1685
What remains: Standing
Visiting: Open to visit

The transitional Romanesque cathedral, built between the 12th and 13th centuries with its high altar consecrated in 1188, to which were added the Gothic lantern of Rodrigo de Badajoz (1499 to 1505), the chapel of the Santo Cristo (finished in 1527 and lengthened from 1674 to 1685) and, in the early 17th century, the ambulatory that replaced the Romanesque apse. The cathedral museum occupies the unfinished Claustra Nova.

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