only the center is solid gold and the first that came from America, more or less 15 kilos.
Years later, more or less 50, it was made the rest of the statue out of solid silver, 183 kilos of that.
Centuries later by the end of XVI, it was #gilded, only the silver, with gold match the color.
Defined as one of the #greatest #jewels #of #Christianity, the “Custody” of #Toledo #Cathedral, a tower of more than two meters of #gold and #silver, runs through the streets of the city during Corpus Christi.
In the “chapel of the tower, or of the treasure”, under the tower of Toledo Cathedral and after entering through a Plateresque door with the sculptures of the “Domine, quo vadis?”, we enter the enclosure that contains some of the greatest riches of Toledo Cathedral, over which the “cathedral monstrance” stands out.
