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Church of San Juan Bautista de Alatoz

Alatoz, La Manchuela, Albacete

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Church of San Juan Bautista de Alatoz

Monument · Alatoz, La Manchuela, Albacete

Parish church declared a Monumento Histórico-Artístico (a national heritage-protection designation, precursor to the BIC) on 24 November 1983 and restored in recent years, recognisable by its bell tower. It is an 18th-century building about whose construction little is known: in 1761 the chancel and transept already existed, though without a roof, and the works were completed in 1780 with the solemn blessing of the building. Built of lime-and-rubble masonry with courses of brick, in the manner of Toledan-style coursing, it has a Latin-cross plan with connected side chapels and a transept covered by a dome on pendentives. Inside, the Neoclassical altarpiece stands out, the work of Lorenzo Alonso Franco from 1806, together with figures by Roque López, a disciple of Francisco Salzillo, among which a Nazareno and a dressed Dolorosa are especially notable.

Photo: Segurana (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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