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Catedral de San Cristóbal de La Laguna

San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Tenerife - Área Metropolitana, Santa Cruz de Tenerife

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Catedral de San Cristóbal de La Laguna

Monument · San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Tenerife - Área Metropolitana, Santa Cruz de Tenerife

It began as a hermitage erected in 1511 by Alonso Fernández de Lugo, replaced in 1515 by a Mudéjar-style church raised to parish status. A papal bull issued by Pope Pius VII on 21 December 1819 made it a cathedral when the Diocese of Tenerife was created. Its neoclassical façade dates from 1820, and the current neo-Gothic concrete structure was built between 1904 and 1915; a restoration carried out from 2002 to 2014 renewed its 41.5-metre-high dome using polypropylene fibres. It houses a Carrara marble pulpit by Pasquale Bocciardo and a Baroque altarpiece with paintings attributed to Hendrick van Balen.

ermita de 1511; elevada a catedral el 21 de diciembre de 1819; cuerpo neogótico de 1904-1915

Photo: Diego Delso (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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