Chief attractions: Cloister door, chapels. LEON See dedicated to San Froilan and Santa Maria de la Blanca. Date of erection not known. First known bishop, Basilides, 252 A.D. During Arab invasion, see existed on and off. * * * First stone of present cathedral laid in 1199. The building did not begin until 1250; terminated end of XIVth century. XIIth century French ogival. Vaulting above croisée fell down in 1631. Southern front rebuilt in 1694. Whole cathedral partly ruined in 1743. Closed to public by government in 1850. Reopened in 1901. * * * Total length, 300 feet; width, 130 feet; height of nave, 100 feet. Height of northern tower, 211 feet; of southern, 221 feet. Length of each side of cloister, 97 feet. * * * Chief attractions: The ensemble, windows, choir-stalls, cloister. LOGROÑO See dedicated to the Holy Virgin. Compare Calahorra. * * * Santa Maria raised to collegiate church in 1435. Old building torn down in same year, excepting some few remains. Present church begun in 1435; not terminated yet. Enlargements being introduced at the present date. Belongs to Spanish-Grotesque. * * * Chief attractions: Western front, trascoro, towers. LUGO See dedicated to the Mother and Child. Bishopric erected in Vth century; first bishop, Agrestio, in 433. * * * Cathedral began in 1129; completed in 1177. XIIth century Galician Romanesque spoilt by posterior additions. Building greatly reformed in XVIth to XVIIIth centuries. * * * Chief attractions: The ensemble (interior), western portal, exterior of apse. MADRID-ALCALÁ See erected in 1850. MADRID Temporary cathedral dedicated to San Isidro. Seventeenth century building of no art merit. New cathedral dedicated to the Virgen de la Almudena. In course of construction; begun in 1885. ALCALÁ Dedicated to Santos Justo and Pastor; called la Magistral. In a ruinous state; closed, and see temporarily removed to Jesuit temple. Constructed in XVth century, and raised to suffragan in same century. Severe and naked (gloomy) Spanish-Gothic. Interior of building cannot be visited. MONDOÑEDO See dedicated to the Virgin. Bishopric removed here from Ribadeo, late XIIth century. First (or second) bishop, Don Martin, about 1219. * * * Foundation of cathedral dates probably from XIIth century. XIIIth century Galician Romanesque structure. Greatly spoilt by posterior additions. Ambulatory dates from XVth or XVIth century. * * * Rectangular in form; 120 feet long by 71 wide. Height of nave, 45 feet; of aisles, 28 feet. ORENSE See dedicated to St. Martin of Tours and St. Mary Mother. Bishopric erected previous to IVth century (?). * * * Erection of present building begun late XIIth century. Probably terminated late XIIIth century. XIIIth century, Galician Romanesque with pronounced ogival mixture. * * * Chief attractions: Portico del Paraiso, western portal, decoration of the interior. OSMA See dedicated to San Pedro de Osma.