Albacete's cathedral was begun in 1515 as a parish church, raised to co-cathedral status only in 1949, and finished — in the sense of being finally consecrated — in 1978. The long pause shows: the nave is late-Gothic; the side chapels are baroque; the western façade was patched up in a stripped 20th-century neoclassicism; the bell tower remains a stump.
Inside, the four spiral columns of black marble around the main altar are the great surprise — sometimes attributed to Vandelvira, the most important architect of 16th-century Andalusia — and the Capilla de los Villena holds a fine retable. Albacete is not Toledo, and the cathedral knows it; visits are short, free and quiet.