Ciudad Rodrigo Cathedral

Ciudad Rodrigo Cathedral
Cathedral of Saint Mary
Catedral de Santa María
South façade in 2023.
40.598941°N 6.535096°W / 40.598941; -6.535096
Location	Ciudad Rodrigo
Address	4, Plaza de Herrasti
Country	Spain
Denomination	Catholic
Website	catedralciudadrodrigo.com
History
Status	Cathedral
Dedication	Mary, Mother of Jesus
Dedicated	1160[1]
Architecture
Style	Late Romanesque, Gothic
Administration
Metropolis	Valladolid
Diocese	Ciudad Rodrigo
Clergy
Bishop(s)	José Luis Retana Gozalo
Spanish Cultural Heritage
Type	Non-movable
Criteria	Monument
Designated	15 September 1889
Reference no.	RI-51-0000059

The Cathedral of Saint Mary (Spanish: Catedral de Santa María) is a Roman Catholic cathedral located in Ciudad Rodrigo, Spain. It was declared Bien de Interés Cultural on 15 September 1889.[2]

The Renaissance composers Juan Navarro Hispalensis and his pupil Juan Esquivel Barahona were both choirmasters at the cathedral.

Architecture

South gallery (14th century)

The cathedral has four doors. In the episciple-side transept, there is a Gothic frieze with twelve figures from the Old Testament and a tympanum in which four Romanesque figures were placed in the Modern Age: from left to right Saint John, Saint Peter, Christ Pantocrator, Saint Paul, and Saint James. In the other transept the Puerta de Amayuelas opens, with a multi-lobed arch.

The tower was raised by Juan de Sagarvinaga at the end of the 18th century in a neoclassical style, after the collapse of the second tower during the Lisbon earthquake (the cathedral had had a third tower, which was demolished after the communal war).

See also

• List of Bien de Interés Cultural in the Province of Salamanca

References

1. Casas, Narciso (4 February 2013). Historia y Arte en las catedrales de España [History and Art in the Cathedrals of Spain] (in Spanish). Madrid: Bubok Publishing. ISBN 978-8468632018.
2. Cerrato, Cruces Blázquez; Esquivel, Alberto Martín (2016-01-01). "Nuevos datos sobre los tesorillos de denarios romano-republicanos de Penhagarcía (Castelo Branco, Portugal) y del castro de Lerilla (Zamarra, Salamanca)". Actas XV Congreso Nacional de Numismática. Patrimonio numismático y museos. ISBN 978-84-89157-73-6.