Burgos - visit the cathedral

Spend a long time visiting the cathedral. You have to pay and come at a set time - not too long to wait for me. Didn't manage to handle the guide which you download on your mobile which did not worry me too much - there is so much too see and take in with all the explanations it is quite overwhelming.

So I just walked around trying to understand the images etc without knowing who had painted/sculpted what. A catholic upbringing helps.
- Found two naked Jesu Bambinos, no clothes or crowns.
- Found two Madonnas Lactans ie breastfeeding.
- Two Cristo de Burgos ie wearing a skirt on the cross and the whole body covered in wounds.
- One Tree of Jesse growing out of Jesse's sleeping body, Jesse the Father of King David.
- Twice Santiago Matamoros (Killer of the moors).
- One Saint Anne carrying her daughter, Mary with a crown on her head and her grandson, Jesus on Mary's arm.
- One tender madonna.
- And finally a sculpture of a smiling Madonna with her child and two figures next to her which I did not identify.
So my visit was quite successful as you can see.Read more