Description
The present parish church of Our Lady of the Assumption, although incorporating the sacristy, which had been reformed in the 17th century by the Mannerist Benito del Castillo, rose after its collapse on the site of the ancient Gothic church of Santa Maria the Mayor. Justino Flórez projected it, between 1872 and 1910, not in a neo-Gothic style - the de Viollet le Duco - as its initial purpose, but in a Byzantine Neorromanic, due to the scarcity of resources, despite the generous contribution of the people. In addition to the mural paintings of Julio Romero de Torres, the broad portico or nártex, the cruciform pillars and, on them, the fajon arches and formers that alternate with cross vaults, the dome on the cruiser's pechines or that of the fourth sphere in the chapel of the transept, all this shows the architectural eclecticism and the historical "revival." On the outside, a single high-rise tower with arquivolta and roseton that emphasize the medieval of the whole, counterstrong, piled chairs, bones and wide steps to solve the problem of levels.
