The most impressive cathedrals in Spain

La Seu of Barcelona, a Gothic jewel built between the 13th and 15th centuries, preserves the memory of Saint Eulalia and has a cloister that is home to thirteen white geese.

A jewel of Spanish Gothic begun in 1221 and a World Heritage Site in its own right, with openwork spires, the Constable's Chapel, the tomb of El Cid and the famous Papamoscas.

Segorbe Cathedral, built from the 13th century onwards alongside the town walls, boasts an unusual Valencian Gothic cloister with a trapezoidal plan that is striking in its simplicity.

The Pulchra Leonina, a jewel of French-influenced Gothic right on the Camino de Santiago, where the walls all but disappear to make way for one of the largest collections of medieval stained glass in the…

A Herrerian cathedral left half-built: Juan de Herrera's grand project in the heart of Valladolid, with Baroque additions and a story of thwarted ambition.

La Seu, a Gothic cathedral overlooking the sea from atop Palma's city walls, is home to Europe's largest original Gothic rose window and one of the tallest naves on the continent.

The final destination of the Camino de Santiago and, according to tradition, the resting place of the tomb of the Apostle, Compostela's cathedral was one of the great pilgrimage destinations of medieval Europe.

The largest cathedral in the world by area, built on the site of the old great mosque, it is home to the Giralda, the Patio de los Naranjos and the tomb of Christopher Columbus.

The primatial church of Spain and, for many, the crowning achievement of Spanish Gothic, Toledo Cathedral distils almost three centuries of building ambition into white stone.

Cáceres' principal church, a late Gothic building with Romanesque traces and Renaissance touches, presiding over the Plaza de Santa María at the heart of the World Heritage-listed old town.

Congregational mosque, Christian cathedral and UNESCO World Heritage Site: the great monument of Caliphal art, where twelve centuries of history coexist under a single roof.