The Catedral de Santa María la Real de la Almudena wears a striking, two-tone exterior of gray granite and white stone that sets it apart from the brick-heavy architecture nearby. Construction dragged on for over a century, beginning in eighteen eighty-three and finally concluding in nineteen ninety-three. Architects changed styles mid-stream, blending a neoclassical facade with a neo-Gothic interior. When Pope John Paul the Second consecrated the building, he ended a wait that spanned the reigns of several Spanish monarchs.
Catedral de Santa María la Real de la Almudena
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