Segovia Cathedral, Castile and Leon, Spain

Cloister, 15th century, remnant of the earlier cathedral, designed by Juan Guas, Segovia Cathedral, (Catedral de Segovia, Catedral de Santa Maria), 1525-77, by Juan Gil de Hontanon (1480-1526), and continued by his son Rodrigo Gil de Hontanon (1500-1577), Segovia, Castile and Leon, Spain. Last Gothic Cathedral in Spain, commissioned by Carlos V (1500-58), after an earlier cathedral was damaged in the Revolt of the Comuneros, 1520. Juan and Rodrigo Gil de Hontanon are buried beneath the cloister. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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Castile and Leon (Segovia, Avila), Spain