Crossroads and dome of the cathedral of small towns

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Crossroads and dome of the cathedral of small towns

On the intersection of the major and transversal aisles raises to him the dome of the crossroads, of fifty meters of height, with double body of lights and astonishing vault of soaking star, that permits the step of the skylight. It built it John of small valley between 1540 and 1568 possibly inspired in the previous that built John and colony hack, finished towards 1495 and that it is thrown headlong in 1539. If it was built in the middle of rebirth contains concessions and compliments of the late Gothic, skillfully harmonized with the Gothic profile of the cathedral. It is all he a prodigy of sculpture, so much in exempt statues as in relief; more than a hundred statues it is distributed in all your exterior and inside environment. Of it said Felipe II, absorbed in your contemplation, " that more it appeared work of angels that of men ".

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