Our Cathedral

My town was a proud owner of the Europe's most magnificent Romanic cathedral until the unfortunate earthquake in the last half of the 19th century. Church and city fathers, in their infinite wisdom, decided to rebuild the cathedral and make it bigger, better and older, by rebuilding it in (neo) Gothic style. Since money was scarce, they used the local stone quarry which produces a distinctive yellow tinged soft stone. Needless to say, 20th century car industry has not proven a great friend to soft yellow limestone (acid rains and such), so most of the Gothic lacework on the cathedral melted away. Despite the fact that because of its half molten appearance, our cathedral stopped being a run-of-the mill neogothic thingie and started to look like Gaudiesqe Sacrada, our infinitely wise church and city fathers decided to restore it back to its (non-original) neogothic yellowstone splendor. Since money was scarce, they decided to use the local stone quarry with its yellow tinged limestone.