Toledo Cathedral

Toledo Cathedral is one of the very few Gothic cathedrals I have come across which can be viewed in its entirety from a distance. I suppose being built on top of a hill helps! Like many very old buildings, it has been hacked about a fair bit over the past eight hundred years or so. Despite not being one for the visual excesses of the Baroque, verging on kitsch, I have to concede that "El Transparente" is a work of genius and makes an otherwise conventional ambulatory into a brilliant, living piece of theatre. The major downside of this is that it has become the "must see" point for every tour group and so is beset by idiots trying to use the flash on their i-phones to illuminate an already perfectly lit masterpiece and annoying everyone else in the process, compounded by even more idiotic attempts to include all their mates in the frame... As with several Spanish cathedrals, photography is forbidden, but absolutely no attempt is made to enforce the rule, even to the extent that the custodians virtually pose to be included in the pictures surrounded by the veritable fireworks of a thousand flashes. What is it that makes people expect their puny little cameras to (evenly) light up an entire Gothic cathedral?