Limoges - Cathedral of St Etienne

In the southeast of the town of Limoges is its most important monument and only Gothic building, the Cathedral of St-Etienne, begun in 1273, continued in various later periods but not finally completed until the second half of the 19th C. In the north transept is the Portail de St-Jean, with carved doors (legends of St Martial and St Stephen) dating from the first half of the 16th C. The tower is 62 m/205ft high, the three lower storys being Romanesque and the four upper ones Gothic.