Stock Photo - The Santa Iglesia Catedral Metropolitana de Santa María is a cathedral temple of Catholic worship dedicated to the Virgin Mary, in the Spanish city of Burgos. Its construction began in the year 1221, following French Gothic patterns. It had important modifications in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries: the needles of the main facade, the Condestable chapel and the dome of the transept, elements of flamboyant Gothic that give the temple its unmistakable profile. The last important works (the sacristy or the chapel of Santa Tecla) already belong to the eighteenth century, a century in which the Gothic façades of the main façade were also modified. The construction and subsequent remodeling were done with limestone extracted from the quarries of the localities of Hontoria de la Cantera and Cubillo del Campo.