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Basílica de San Juan Bautista y Santísimo Cristo de Telde

Telde, Gran Canaria - Área Metropolitana, Las Palmas

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Basílica de San Juan Bautista y Santísimo Cristo de Telde

Monument · Telde, Gran Canaria - Área Metropolitana, Las Palmas

Church begun in 1484 by Cristóbal García del Castillo over an earlier church, declared a Bien de Interés Cultural (Spain's top heritage-protection category) in 1991 and raised to minor basilica by Paul VI in 1973. It holds the Cristo de Telde, an image 1.80 meters tall and only 6.5 kilos, made between 1550 and 1555 by Tarascan craftsmen from Michoacán (Mexico) using corn-stalk paste, and a Gothic-Flemish triptych brought from Flanders around 1525 by the same García del Castillo.

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