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Float of the Virgen de la Caridad

Camarena, Torrijos, Toledo

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Float of the Virgen de la Caridad

Monument · Camarena, Torrijos, Toledo

The chariot of the Virgin of Charity, kept in the parish church of Camarena, is a heavily ornamented baroque chariot, decorated with life-size gilded sculptures on secular and Greco-Roman mythological themes. According to local tradition, recorded by the royal geographer Tomás López, kings Philip V and Elisabeth Farnese gave it to the local resident Sebastián de Flores around 1728 to be used in the Virgin's processions, after it had been used at the coronation of Louis I. A 2020 study published in The Burlington Magazine established that it was actually made in 1697 in the Neapolitan workshop of Cristoforo Schor, originally intended for a Spanish ambassador in Rome.

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