Justo Gallego Martínez

Interesting article in my Google alerts this morning. A elderly chap and ex-monk Justo Gallego Martínez has been building his own cathedral in the Spanish village of Mejorada del Campo near Madrid. Without formal planning permission or building permits from the authorities and working mainly alone he has been building his Cathedral since 1961.

Now I know that there is a modicum amount of illegal construction in Spain, but a bloody Cathedral. I wonder if the Castillo de Salobreña had planning permission in the 10th century.

Factoid: Wikipedia article on Justo Gallego Martínez
Citynoise article on Gallego with many photographs