New Cathedral of Salamanca

Castile and León · Spain

New Cathedral of Salamanca, Spain
Photo: Julián Rejas De Castro, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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Begun in the 16th century, this vast church fuses late Gothic vaults with Renaissance and Baroque detail, sharing a wall with the older Romanesque cathedral beside it. Carvers famously slipped an astronaut and a dragon into a modern restoration of its Puerta de Ramos.

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