2024

CATHEDRAL BRECON

Churches cathedrals basilicas and chapels

Superb Gothic cathedral built around 1215 with breathtaking stained glass windows. The Celts were the first to pray at the top of this hill; then came the Norman people: the font baptismal inside the building testifies to their passage. The exterior, rather austere, contrasts with an interior coloured by the light of the stained glass windows and the finesse of the sculpted wood pan in the nave. Brecon Cathedral frequently organises concerts of Welsh choirs, for a dive in the heart of the Celtic soul.

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