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Collegiate Church of Santa María la Mayor, Alquézar

Alquézar, Somontano de Barbastro, Huesca

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Collegiate Church of Santa María la Mayor, Alquézar

Monument · Alquézar, Somontano de Barbastro, Huesca

The collegiate church of Santa María la Mayor has its origin in a fortress built in the early 9th century by Jalaf ibn Rasid to halt the advance of the Christian kingdoms, conquered around 1067 by Sancho Ramírez, who in 1099 endowed Alquézar with a community of Augustinian canons and raised a first Romanesque collegiate church. The current collegiate church, late Gothic, was erected in the first half of the 16th century, the work of the architect Juan de Segura, also the author of the Seo de Barbastro; of the earlier building only the atrium survives, with historiated capitals. The cloister, Romanesque in origin though built in the 14th century, preserves six 12th-century capitals with scenes such as the creation of Adam or the great flood, and its walls were later decorated with fresco paintings of the New Testament.

Photo: Lourdes Sada (CC BY-SA 3.0 es)

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