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León Cathedral
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How it came to be
Leon Cathedral stands in the city of Leon in western Nicaragua. It was built between 1747 and the early 19th century to designs by the Guatemalan architect Diego Jose de Porres Esquivel, and it marks the move from late Baroque to Neoclassical architecture in an eclectic style.
It combines a rectangular basilica plan of Spanish origin with regional proportions, using mainly horizontal lines and low, thick towers to stand up to earthquakes. The interior is soberly decorated and full of natural light, while the vault of the sanctuary is richly ornamented. It holds a wooden Flemish altarpiece and the fourteen Stations of the Cross painted by the Nicaraguan artist Antonio Sarria in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The crypts hold the remains of 27 people, among them the poet Ruben Dario, who died in 1916. His tomb lies at the foot of the statue of Saint Paul, under a marble lion by the sculptor Jorge Navas Cordonero. The cathedral was inscribed in 2011.
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