The Cuenca Cathedral

The Cathedral of Santa Maria Maggiore, symbol of ecclesiastical power, was the first building was begun, after the conquest of the city, was located where the old Muslim citadel. According Lampérez, restorer of the facade, and is regarded as the earliest example of Gothic in Spain. Construction began in the late twelfth century, was consecrated in 1208 by Archbishop Ximénez de Rada, but was not completed until 1271..

It is a complex building with traces of transition from Romanesque to Gothic in the late twelfth and thirteenth century other other XV century. It has a Latin cross plan with three naves and one on the cruise. The building is only discussed in terms of influences. For some, their vaults sexpartite manifest a Burgundian Cistercian influence, for others, the use of double cruise decoration sawtooth and square lantern tower, manifests an English influence.

The series of chapels covering the aisles were built in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, noting that of the Apostles, the Holy Spirit and the Knights, along with the noble rooms, as the sacristy and the chapter house. The cloister is accessed by the singular Jamete Arch. There is none of the four towers of the temple, except the start of the Angel, the work of the first phase of construction. It should be noted also the clerestory open and transparent, Baroque work of Ventura Rodriguez.