Neo-Gothic Madrid: Almudena Cathedral

As I have already said on other occasions, at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, who knows, really, if due to a stagnation in architectural conceptions or suggested by one of those fleeting fashions that to the beat of a little less than nascent Archaeological science that was beginning to rescue from its metaphorical tomb of oblivion and disdain the great creations of the European medieval past or encouraged by the excess of zeal of experts, such as the architect and restorer of the Parisian cathedral of Notre Dame, Viollet le Duc, began to to detect an unusual interest in the great styles of the past, focusing attention, above all, on the Romanesque and Gothic styles, creating a new trend, the neo-Romanesque or the neo-Gothic, not without, basically, beauty and romanticism.