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Catedral Vieja
Museo Catedralico
Salamanca
Castilla y León
Spain
92 321 30 67
Type: Religious Site
Addmission Fee: Entry 3 Euro, students 2.25 Euro
Hours: Open Mon.-Sat. 10 am-1:30 pm and 4-7:30 pm, Sun. 10 am-1:30 pm
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Salamanca
Castilla y León
Spain
92 321 30 67
Type: Religious Site
Addmission Fee: Entry 3 Euro, students 2.25 Euro
Hours: Open Mon.-Sat. 10 am-1:30 pm and 4-7:30 pm, Sun. 10 am-1:30 pm
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The Old Cathedral is accessed through the new one. The construction of Salamanca’s Catedral Vieja was begun in 1150, soon after the Christians had run the Moors out of the city, and completed in the 13th century. It originally conformed to the traditional cruciform ground plan, but once the Catedral Nueva was tacked onto it, it lost that shape. The Romanesque styling makes for an interesting contrast to the much larger Gothic cathedral adjoining it. The reredos of the main altar sports 53 panels painted by Nicholas of Florence in the 15th century narrating the life of Jesus.
Over the altar is a wooden effigy with bronze head and hands of the Virgin of La Vega (fertile plain), Salamanca’s patron saint. The dome above the transept is well known by Salamantinos as the Torre del Gallo for the rooster that sits atop it. If you notice a young man or woman pacing nervously back and forth in the cathedral, pay no mind. Doctoral candidates from the University of Salamanca spend their nerve-wracking pre-examination night in the cathedral’s St. Barbara Chapel.
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