What is Zamora Cathedral?
{{Infobox church | name = Zamora Cathedral<br /> Catedral de Zamora | image = Catedral de Zamora (fachada principal)2.JPG | imagesize = 180px | caption = Main façade | location = [[Zamora, Spain]] | country = Spain | denomination = [[Roman Catholicism]] | style = [[Romanesque architecture|Romanesque]] | groundbreaking = 1140 | completed date = 1174 }} '''Zamora Cathedral''' is a [[Roman Catholic]] [[cathedral]] in [[Zamora, Spain|Zamora]], [[Spain]].<ref name=Trefler198>Caroline Trefler; Fodor's Travel Publications, Inc., ''Spain 2009'' (New York: Fodor's, 2009), p. 198</ref> It was built in the middle of the [[12th century]]. [[King]] [[Alfonso VII of León and Castile]] [[sponsor]]ed the [[construction]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.arteguias.com/romanico_zamora1.htm |title=La Catedral de Zamora y la iglesia de la Magdalena |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=April 2010 |website= |publisher=LA Catedral de Zamora y la Iglesia de la Magdalena |accessdate=25 October 2014}}</ref> The cathedral was built mostly in the [[Romanesque architecture|Romanesque]] architectural style.<ref name=Trefler198/> It also has [[Byzantine architecture|Byzantine]] influences.<ref name=inspain>{{cite web |url=http://www.inspain.org/en/sites/zamoracathedral.asp |title=Zamora Cathedral |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=2014 |website= |publisher=inspain.org |accessdate=25 October 2014}}</ref> It is built on the [[Latin cross]] [[floor plan]].<ref name=inspain/> Its last [[Church bell|bell]] was built in 1805. == References == {{reflist}} == Other websites == * [http://www.gotik-romanik.de/Zamora,%20Thumbnails/Thumbnails.html Photos] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150215133801/http://www.gotik-romanik.de/Zamora,%20Thumbnails/Thumbnails.html |date=2015-02-15 }} * [http://www.spain.info/TourSpain/Arte%20y%20Cultura/Monumentos/H/UW/0/Catedral%20de%20Zamora?La