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Cathedral de la Almudena

Cathedral de la Almudena

This is Madrid’s main cathedral, directly opposite the Royal Palace. It doesn’t look very old, and it’s not, at least compared to some of the other cathedrals we will see. It was started in 1879 with a plan to become a gothic cathedral, but stopped many times due to lack of funding or to the Civil War, and so in the 1950’s there was a national contest to find a new architectural style, since the gothic style was deemed to be too out of place. In 1993 Pope John Paul II officially consecrated the Cathedral, and it has been open since then. Inside you can see a 16th century Virgen de la Almudena painting, which is one of the city’s two patron saints.