Explore León

León Cathedral is a Gothic cathedral on the Way of Saint James, begun in the mid-13th century to a French-influenced design attributed to Master Enrique and largely finished by the mid-15th century. Its walls are reduced to slender piers and filled with medieval stained glass. The cathedral museum shows sculpture and painting from its collection.

The Basilica of San Isidoro is a Romanesque church in León, rebuilt in stone from 1063, when the relics of Saint Isidore of Seville were brought here. The adjoining museum includes the Royal Pantheon, burial place of the kings of León, with 12th-century wall paintings, and the cloister where the Cortes of León met in 1188.