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Hermitage of Nuestra Señora de la Natividad de Guadamur

Guadamur, Montes de Toledo, Toledo

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Hermitage of Nuestra Señora de la Natividad de Guadamur

Monument · Guadamur, Montes de Toledo, Toledo

The hermitage of Our Lady of the Nativity stands on the hill bearing its name, in Guadamur, overlooking the town from the east and very close to the castle. It is in an early Mudéjar style, from the 13th and 14th centuries, and of its original design only the semicircular apse survives, built of rubble masonry with brick corners and a pair of blind concentric arches, along with a brick dome attached to the nave's triumphal arch; the rest was rebuilt in 1976. On the altar is venerated a painting whose origin was a Byzantine icon of Saint Anne holding the infant Virgin in her arms, transformed by successive restorations, which has been documented in worship since 1611. Beneath the apse ceiling hang reproductions of the Visigothic crowns from the Treasure of Guarrazar, found precisely in Guadamur in 1858.

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