Basque Spain & Camino de Santiago - Discover Spain: Experience the Best of Spain - page 278

3 Hotel Norte y Londres C1

Eating

4 Casa Ojeda D2

5 Cervecería Morito B2

6 La Fabula D2

Drinking

7 Café de las Artes C1

8 Café España C2

9 Café Latino C1

Sights

CATEDRAL
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(Plaza del Rey Fernando; adult/child €5/2.50; 9.30am-6.30pm) This Unesco
World Heritage-listed masterpiece is probably worth the trip to Burgos on its own. It
had humble origins as a modest Romanesque church, but work began on a grander
scale in 1221. Remarkably, within 40 years most of the French Gothic structure that
you see today had been completed. The twin towers, which went up later in the
15th century, each represent 84m of richly decorated Gothic fantasy and they're
surrounded by a sea of similarly intricate spires.
The Capilla del Condestable , on the eastern end of the ambulatory behind the
main altar, is a remarkable late-15th-century production.
Also worth a look is the peaceful cloister , with its sculpted medieval tombs. Off
the cloister is the Capilla de Corpus Cristi , where, high on the northwestern wall,
hangs the coffin of El Cid.

Cathedral

Sleeping

HOTEL NORTE Y LONDRES €€ Historic Hotel