Nestling under this gigantic pile is the loveliest thing in all Salamanca, the catedral vieja, its title in the old Latin proverb "fortis Salmantina.
Unfortunately the columns have been decorated with a spiral pattern of a chocolate colour, quite destroying the beauty and simple grandeur of a feature which for simplicity ranks next to that of the Catedral Vieja at Salamanca.
All this interested me muchly, but the "Catedral Vieja," a grand example of late Romanesque style, interested me more.
On the wall of the north aisle, which was partly demolished when the "Catedral Nueva" was built, are some very curious frescoes; the church has a clerestory of single lights but no triforium.
The Catedral Vieja, built in the thirteenth century, was originally Gothic, but being almost entirely destroyed during Lord Essex's siege in 1596, was rebuilt in its present unpretentious Renaissance form.
Creeping south through Leon, where San Isidoro is well worth mention, we find the finest examples of the period in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, at Segovia, Avila, and the grand Catedral Vieja of Salamanca.
To reach the interior one has to retrace one's steps to the "Catedral Nueva" and from its south aisle pass through a doorway into the other building.
The Tenebrarium is described by Cean Bermudez in his "Descripcion artistica de la catedral de Sevilla," p.
The following are monographs on particular buildings:--Historia de laCatedral de Burgos, &c.
In the end she slept in the niche in the wall of the Catedral de la Vera Cruz, beside her sainted 'Enery.
Don Juan led the way through an alley in the rear of the Catedral de la Santa Cruz to the door of the sacristy; as he placed his hand on the latch three rifle bullets struck around them, showering them with fragments of falling adobe.
To these indolent watchers of the dawn was vouchsafed presently the sight of Senora Concepcion Josefina Morelos on her way to early mass at the Catedral de la Vera Cruz.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "catedral" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
