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Church of Santa María de los Alcázares

Maqueda, Torrijos, Toledo

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Church of Santa María de los Alcázares

Monument · Maqueda, Torrijos, Toledo

The church of Santa María de los Alcázares, in Maqueda (Toledo), is a 15th-century Gothic-Mudéjar temple with three naves that preserves Renaissance ceramics from Talavera. On 3 June 1931, during the Second Republic, it was declared an architectural and artistic monument belonging to the National Artistic Treasure, by a decree published the following day in the Gaceta de Madrid and signed by the president of the provisional government, Niceto Alcalá-Zamora, and the minister of Education, Marcelino Domingo. It is currently listed as a Bien de Interés Cultural (Spain's highest level of heritage protection), with the category of monument.

Photo: Håkan Svensson Xauxa (CC BY 2.5)

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