Pamplona - Cathedral

A richly gilded doorway in the south aisle, with a beautiful 14th century tympanum ("Death of the Virgin"), gives access to the 14th century cloister, with its tall arches one of the finest in Spain. On the east side is the Capilla Barbazana, with the tomb of its founder, Cardinal Arnaldo de Barbazán (1318-55). On the south side is the 14th century Puerta Preciosa, which leads into the Sala Preciosa, once the meeting-place of the Cortes of Navarre.

The Diocesan Museum is housed in rooms opening off the cloister. Particularly impressive are the richly decorated refectory, with a carving of the ''Maiden and the Unicorn'' on the lector's pulpit, and the huge kitchen with a chimney 27m/89ft high. The other rooms contain the rich Cathedral Treasury, which includes a 13th century Gospel book, a French reliquary of the Holy Sepulchre, the Lignum Crucis (believed to be a fragment of the True Cross), pictures and sculpture.