Lugo Cathedral

Saint Mary's Cathedral, higher called Lugo Cathedral, is a Roman Catholic church and basilica in Lugo, Galicia, north-western Spain. The cathedral became erected inside the early 12^th century in a Romanesque fashion, with Gothic, Baroque and Neoclassicist factors. A church existed in the site from 755. In 1129, Bishop Peter III commissioned a new edifice in the cutting-edge architectural fashion from Raimundo, a local architect and builder. This Romanesque shape changed into finished in 1273. Later renovations and restorations introduced factors in different patterns, which include the Renaissance retablo on the excessive altar.

It became destroyed in the 1755 Lisbon earthquake and fragments of it are housed within the church. The cathedral acquired from the Pope the privilege to completely divulge the Holy Sacrament. The cathedral has a Latin Cross shape, with a duration of 85 m. It has a nave, included via a barrel vault, and aisles, with an ambulatory and 5 apse chapels. The triforium features triple ogival mullioned windows. The apse homes a calvary sculpture from an unknown date.