Logbook · 9 places

Church of la Asunción de La Guardia

La Guardia, Mesa de Ocaña, Toledo

1 Villages · 5 Monuments · 2 Curiosities · 1 Food and drink

Spain › Castilla-La Mancha › Toledo › Mesa de Ocaña › La Guardia › Church of la Asunción de La Guardia

Church of la Asunción de La Guardia

Monument · La Guardia, Mesa de Ocaña, Toledo

The parish church of Nuestra Señora de la Asunción in La Guardia, in Neoclassical style, was built between the 17th and 18th centuries (1620-1765) to designs by the architect Juan Bautista Monegro. The works, begun with the transept, were interrupted in 1640 when the village refused to pay tithes, and did not resume until 1760. With a Latin-cross floor plan, it preserves inside paintings by Angelo Nardi and silver pieces from Toledo workshops dating from the 16th to the 19th century, as well as the 18th-century Neoclassical main altarpiece, with a large canvas by Alejandro de la Cruz from 1766. The Chapel of the Chaplains, with a Greek-cross floor plan and also built by Monegro between 1628 and 1632, houses paintings by Nardi and Orrente and has its own crypt. The nave's eight original chapels were lost during the Civil War.

Photo: Malopez 21 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

What to see and do in La Guardia