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Aachen Cathedral
Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
In the octagonal chapel that Charlemagne built as the heart of his empire, 32 Holy Roman Emperors ascended a marble throne to receive their crowns....
Bourges Cathedral
Bourges, Centre-Val de Loire, France
Bourges Cathedral rises from one of the earliest Christian communities in Gaul, its five naves flowing without interruption toward the altar....
Canterbury Cathedral
Canterbury, England, United Kingdom
Canterbury Cathedral stands at the end of the Pilgrim's Way as the seat of the Archbishop of Canterbury and the site of Thomas Becket's martyrdom in 1170....
St. Brigid's Cathedral, Kildare
Kildare, County Kildare, Ireland
On a gentle hill in County Kildare stands a Gothic cathedral built over one of Ireland's oldest sacred sites....
Burgos Cathedral
Burgos, Castile and León, Spain
Burgos Cathedral rises in the heart of Castile, Spain's first Gothic church and the only Spanish cathedral designated as a standalone World Heritage Site....
Cathédrale Notre-Dame-du-Puy
Le Puy-en-Velay, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
On Mont Anis, where a sick woman once lay upon a dolmen and was healed by the Virgin's grace, one of Europe's oldest Marian sanctuaries rises in Romanesque splendor....
Gloucester Cathedral
Gloucester, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
When King Edward II was murdered at Berkeley Castle in 1327, other abbeys refused his body....
Cologne Cathedral
Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
Cologne Cathedral rises from the Rhine plain in twin spires that took six centuries to complete....
Etchmiadzin Cathedral
Vagharshapat, Armavir Province, Armenia
Built in the early 4th century on the site where Gregory the Illuminator saw Christ descend from heaven, Etchmiadzin stands as the spiritual heart of the Armenian...
Durham Cathedral
Durham, England, United Kingdom
For 120 years, monks fleeing Vikings carried the body of St. Cuthbert across northern England....
Chartres Cathedral
Chartres, Centre-Val de Loire, France
Chartres Cathedral rises from the wheat fields of France as medieval Christianity's most complete surviving statement....
St. Vitus Cathedral
Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
Rising from Prague Castle's heights, St. Vitus Cathedral embodies nearly eleven centuries of Czech spiritual and national aspiration....
Worcester Cathedral
Worcester, England, United Kingdom
Rising above the River Severn, Worcester Cathedral has held continuous Christian worship since 680 AD. Two canonized saints once drew pilgrims here to rival Canterbury....
Ayacucho Cathedral
Ayacucho, Ayacucho, Peru
Built from pink and gray stone over four decades (1632-1672), the Basilica Cathedral of Santa Maria rises from Ayacucho's Plaza de Armas like a prayer made permanent....
Cathedral of St. Julian, Le Mans
Le Mans, Pays de la Loire, France
Before Le Mans was a racing city, it was a cathedral city. The Cathedral of Saint Julian possesses some of France's finest medieval stained glass—windows that have...
Leon
León, Castile and León, Spain
León Cathedral stands as the purest expression of Gothic light theology in Spain....
St. Albans Cathedral, St Albans, United Kingdom
St Albans, England, United Kingdom
St Albans Cathedral stands where Alban, Britain's first recorded Christian martyr, was executed around the third or fourth century....
St. Edmundsbury Cathedral
West Suffolk, England, United Kingdom
St Edmundsbury Cathedral rises beside the ruins of one of medieval England's mightiest abbeys, on ground that held the shrine of St Edmund, the nation's first patron saint....
Ely Cathedral
Ely, England, United Kingdom
Rising from the flat fenlands of East Anglia like a ship on a calm sea, Ely Cathedral has anchored worship on this site since the 7th century....
Aglona
Aglonas pagasts, Latvia
In the lakeland of southeastern Latvia, the white twin-towered Baroque basilica of Aglona is the spiritual heart of Catholic Latvia and its foremost Marian pilgrimage...
Exeter Cathedral
Exeter, England, United Kingdom
Rising from foundations that have witnessed Roman soldiers, Saxon monks, and Norman bishops, Exeter Cathedral holds the longest uninterrupted medieval vaulted ceiling in...
St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, England
City of London, England, United Kingdom
St. Paul's Cathedral has occupied Ludgate Hill for over 1,400 years, through fire and war, reformation and rebuilding....
Cathedral of Murcia
Murcia, Murcia, Region of Murcia, Spain
Seat of the Diocese of Cartagena since 1291, the Cathedral of Murcia rises on the foundations of the city's former Great Mosque and holds, beneath its main altar, the...
Condom Cathedral
Condom, France
Condom Cathedral, the Cathédrale Saint-Pierre, rises over the Gascon town above the Baïse river....
Éauze Cathedral
Eauze, France
Saint-Luperc, the former cathedral of Éauze, stands on the site of Roman Elusa, a bishop's see since late antiquity....
Faro Cathedral
Faro, Faro, Faro / Algarve, Portugal
Faro Cathedral stands on ground used for worship across more than two millennia — a Roman temple, an early Christian basilica, a mosque during Moorish rule, and since the...
Lisbon Cathedral
Lisbon, Lisbon, Lisbon / Lisboa Region, Portugal
Since 1147, this fortress-faced cathedral above the Tagus has held the daily rhythm of Mass, sacrament, and civic devotion as the seat of the Patriarchate of Lisbon....
Oviedo Cathedral and Holy Chamber
Oviedo, Oviedo, Asturias, Spain
Built by King Alfonso II in the early 9th century to house relics carried north ahead of the Moorish conquest, the Cámara Santa remains one of Christendom's most...
Santo Domingo de la Calzada Cathedral
Santo Domingo de la Calzada, Santo Domingo de la Calzada, La Rioja, Spain
Santo Domingo de la Calzada Cathedral holds the tomb of an eleventh-century hermit who made this stretch of the Camino Francés safe by building a causeway, a bridge, and a...
Rochester Cathedral
Rochester, Rochester, Kent, United Kingdom
Rochester Cathedral has stood at the Medway crossing since AD 604, making it one of the oldest sites of continuous Christian worship in England....
Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist — Shroud of Turin
Turin, Turin, Piedmont, Italy
Turin Cathedral was built between 1491 and 1498 and adjoined by Guarino Guarini's Baroque Chapel of the Holy Shroud in the late 17th century....
Cathedral of the Assumption
Malta
The Cathedral of the Assumption crowns the ancient citadel of Victoria, the capital of Gozo, on a hilltop that has been consecrated ground since long before the word...
Guarda Cathedral
Guarda, Guarda, Guarda / Centro, Portugal
Guarda Cathedral rose over roughly a century and a half, beginning in 1390, on the site of the diocesan seat transferred here in 1199 when King Sancho I founded Guarda as...
Jaca Cathedral
Jaca, Jaca, Huesca, Aragón, Spain
Begun around 1076 under King Sancho Ramírez, Jaca Cathedral is among the oldest Romanesque cathedrals in Spain and the principal waypoint for pilgrims descending the...
Sacred Heart Cathedral
Sarajevo, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina
The Sacred Heart Cathedral stands at the center of Sarajevo, a Neo-Gothic witness to the restoration of Catholicism in Bosnia after nearly seven hundred years without a...
Cathedral of Lugo
Lugo, Lugo, Galicia, Spain
Lugo Cathedral has kept the consecrated Host exposed on its altar, day and night, without interruption, for longer than anyone can fully document....
Tui Cathedral
Tui, Tui, Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain
Tui Cathedral rises on a hill above the Miño River, its crenellated towers built as much for defense against Portugal as for worship....
Viseu Cathedral
Viseu, Viseu, Viseu / Centro, Portugal
Viseu Cathedral rises on the site of an Early Christian basilica destroyed under Moorish rule and rebuilt after the 1058 reconquest....
Cathédrale Saint-Lazare d'Autun
Autun, Autun, Saône-et-Loire, Burgundy, France
Built between 1120 and 1146 to shelter the relics of Lazarus of Bethany, Autun Cathedral carries one of the most concentrated programmes of Romanesque sculpture in Europe....
Lectoure Cathedral
Lectoure, France
Lectoure Cathedral, dedicated to the martyr brothers Gervasius and Protasius, crowns a hilltop town in the Gers....
Toledo Cathedral
Toledo, Toledo, Castile-La Mancha, Spain
Toledo Cathedral has stood at the spiritual centre of Iberian Christianity since the Reconquista of 1085, though the ground it occupies has been sacred for far longer —...
Coimbra New Cathedral
Coimbra, Coimbra, Coimbra / Centro, Portugal
Built in the late 16th and 17th centuries as the church of a Jesuit college training missionaries for Portugal's colonial territories, this building became the seat of the...
Mondoñedo Cathedral
Mondoñedo, Mondoñedo, Lugo, Galicia, Spain
Mondoñedo Cathedral is known locally as 'La Catedral Arrodillada'—the Kneeling Cathedral—for the unusually low, austere proportions of its Romanesque-to-Gothic nave....
Coimbra Old Cathedral
Coimbra, Coimbra, Coimbra / Centro, Portugal
The Sé Velha is the only Portuguese Romanesque cathedral from the Reconquista era to survive largely intact....
Évora Cathedral
Évora, Évora, Évora / Alentejo, Portugal
A granite fortress-church raised after the 1166 reconquest of Évora, the Sé has served as the seat of its archdiocese for more than eight centuries....
Porto Cathedral
Porto, Porto, Porto / Norte, Portugal
The Sé do Porto has held the seat of the Bishop of Porto for nine centuries, its thick Romanesque walls and twin towers built as much for defense as for devotion....
Cathedral of Menorca
Ciutadella de Menorca, Ciutadella de Menorca, Menorca, Spain
The Cathedral of Menorca stands in the old town of Ciutadella, its Catalan Gothic nave begun in 1300 on the site of the city's principal mosque....
Winchester Cathedral
Winchester, Winchester, Hampshire, United Kingdom
Winchester Cathedral has stood at the spiritual heart of England for over 1,300 years....
Nidaros Cathedral
Trondheim, Trøndelag, Norway
At the northern reach of medieval Christendom, a Gothic cathedral rises over the burial site of St....
Southwark Cathedral
London, Southwark, Greater London, United Kingdom
Southwark Cathedral stands at London's oldest river crossing as the official starting point of the Becket Way — the 90-mile pilgrimage to Canterbury Thomas Becket himself...
Cathedral of Trier — the Holy Robe
Trier, Trier, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Trier Cathedral has stood on the same Roman foundations since the 4th century — the oldest cathedral church in Germany and the custodian of the Heilig-Rock, the seamless...
Braga Cathedral
Braga, Braga, Braga / Norte, Portugal
Consecrated in 1089, Braga Cathedral is Portugal's oldest cathedral and the seat of the country's Archbishop-Primate....
Orihuela Cathedral
Orihuela, Orihuela, Alicante, Valencian Community, Spain
Orihuela Cathedral is the episcopal seat of the Diocese of Orihuela-Alicante, built in Valencian Gothic style on the site of the city's principal mosque after the 1281...
Seville Cathedral
Seville, Seville, Andalusia, Spain
Seville Cathedral rose from 1401 over the footprint of the city's great Almohad mosque, keeping the mosque's minaret and ablutions courtyard as it grew into the largest...
Ávila Cathedral
Ávila, Ávila, Castile and León, Spain
Ávila Cathedral rises where devotion and defense were never separate acts. Its granite apse, the cimorro, is built directly into the medieval city wall as one of its...
Aix Cathedral
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
Rising on the site of the Roman forum of Aix and a sixth-century baptistery, Saint-Sauveur layers nearly two thousand years of sacred history into one building:...
Tarragona Cathedral
Tarragona, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain
Tarragona Cathedral sits above the vanished Temple of Augustus, at the heart of what was once the Roman Empire's provincial forum....
Cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta, Rieti
Rieti, Lazio, Italy
The Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta has anchored Christian worship in Rieti since at least the sixth century....
Cahors Cathedral
Cahors, Occitania, France
Cahors Cathedral rises over the old town of the Lot with two vast Romanesque domes, among the largest of the medieval West....
Aire Cathedral
Aire-sur-l'Adour, France
In the lower town of Aire-sur-l'Adour, the Cathédrale Saint-Jean-Baptiste has been a seat of bishops since the early Middle Ages....
Cathedral of Syracuse
Syracuse (Siracusa), Sicily, Italy
In the heart of Syracuse, Doric columns from a fifth-century BC Greek temple rise within the walls of a Baroque cathedral....
Cathedral of Santa Maria of Ibiza
Eivissa, Eivissa, Ibiza, Spain
The Cathedral of Santa Maria of Ibiza stands at the highest point of Dalt Vila, Ibiza's fortified old town....
Orthodox Church of the Nativity of the Theotokos
Sarajevo, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina
The largest Serbian Orthodox cathedral in Sarajevo rises five-domed above a city defined by the coexistence of minarets, bell towers, and synagogues....
Palma Cathedral
Palma, Palma, Mallorca, Spain
Palma Cathedral, known locally as La Seu, stands directly on Palma's old sea wall, its immense Gothic nave and rose window visible from the water long before a visitor...
Segovia Cathedral
Segovia, Segovia, Castile and León, Spain
Segovia Cathedral crowns the city's Plaza Mayor as the final major expression of Gothic architecture built in Spain, raised after the destruction of its predecessor during...
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