The architecture of one of the icons of the City of Guadalajara has its reason for being.
Due to the 1818 earthquake the towers of the Cathedral collapsed, leaving the church without its bell towers, as it had two. For many years it remained like this, until one hot summer afternoon the Bishop of Guadalajara, Don Diego Aranda y Carpinteiro, savoring a plate of pitaya sweets, and looking at the drawing at the bottom of the plate, which represented a church with two towers in the shape of inverted cones; looking up at the cathedral, he made up his mind: he called the architect Don Manuel Gómez Ibarra and, showing him the drawing, asked him to build them.
Poets such as Agustín Yáñez and Salvador Novo have written about them, describing them as inverted gannets ... waffles at rest ... Today they are the symbol of Guadalajara and the people of Guadalajara.
