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Real Basílica de San Francisco el Grande

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Frommer's Staff

Prior to the inauguration of the Almudena, this imposing 18th-century church shared honors with San Isidro as the most important religious building in Madrid. Its dome is larger than that of St. Paul's in London, and its interior is filled with a number of ecclesiastical works, notably a Goya painting of St. Bernardinus of Siena. A guide will show you through.