Leon Cathedral: Interior

The interior was even better than the exterior...

Nave view...there's the usual choir, seemingly obstructing any decent view of the
majesty of the building

But wait! They've left the portal to the choir open, and you can
see all the way through to the altar

The other great thing about Leon Cathedral is its glass; not 12th or 13th century,
but an overall aesthetic effect comparable to the great ones

Again, peering through the choir to the altarpiece

In the choir, one bank of organ pipes, bristling with anti-aircraft
guns (normal in Iberia)

Choir

Up closer

Misericord

More windows

Rose window

Chancel area

Altarpiece, appropriately International Gothic; the Baroque stuff was removed a
century ago (Leon is about the only church we have visited where the incongruity
between Gothic and Baroque was noticed; and dealt with)

Chancel ceiling

Another rose

Side aisle

13th century Madonna and Child

Stomping on the serpents of evil

Aisle vaulting

Polychrome Mary, with child

Glorious color; neat place