The Metropolitan Cathedral of Santa María la Real, located in the city of Pamplona, seat of the Archdiocese of Pamplona and Tudela, is a unique ecclesiastical architectural complex, as it is the most complete cathedral complex that is preserved in Spain.

It presents the usual buildings in other cathedrals such as the church, cloister and sacristies, but also preserves the hall, refectory, chapter house and bedroom, which are more typical of the common life to which its chapter was subject and which throughout the centuries they have been demolished in other Spanish cathedrals.

The rooms that make up it were built in different periods and styles, today some of the Romanesque rooms are preserved, but predominantly those built in the Gothic style (including the church and cloister) from the 14th to the 16th centuries. The west facade, in a neoclassical style, was built at the end of the 18th century.

They stand out in this group of buildings; the cloister, which is considered a marvel of European Gothic art and certainly the best cloister of the 14th century; the kitchen, which is one of only three surviving examples of Gothic cuisine in all of Europe; and finally the main façade, one of the purest and most representative works of neoclassicism in the peninsula.

The cathedral, as the episcopal seat and having been the main church of the Kingdom of Navarre for almost a millennium, has hosted the most important and solemn acts of the Navarrese liturgy.

Possibly, the most significant celebration of all those that have taken place in the temple was the coronation and anointing of the kings of Navarre.