Canterbury is a city from United Kingdom, one of the most visited country from the whole Europe. Canterbury Cathedral was founded in 602 by the holy missionary Augustine and it is also known as “the Mother Church of the Anglican Communion”. In time, the cathedral became one of the most wanted palces of pilgrimage.
Travelling here will help you to find and to see every corner of the church.The exterior of the Canterbury Cathedral it’s amazing and it captures your attention through its size.
The main entrance is through the Gothic southwest porch. There is very impressive the way how everything’s in change from Romanesque to Gothic style. Even if in XI century, the cathedral was destroyed by a fire, it came back in the image of tourism being rebuilt in 1077. Canterbury became very quickly a very popular pilgrimage site in United Kingdom as the decorations of the cathedral attest it.
Being one of the tourist , the Canterbury Cathedral reveal this thing through its famous history which has been dating since the Middle Ages. We could mention that it is one of the oldest churches from Europe and this increase the Canterbury Cathedral’s fame.

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