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Church of San Esteban de Moradillo de Sedano

Valle de Sedano, Páramos, Burgos

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Church of San Esteban de Moradillo de Sedano

Monument · Valle de Sedano, Páramos, Burgos

The church of San Esteban stands atop El Castro hill, in Moradillo de Sedano, 6 kilometres east of Sedano, in the valley of the Sedanillo river and within the Hoces del Alto Ebro y Rudrón nature reserve, on one of the earliest routes of pilgrimage to Santiago. One of the finest examples of Romanesque architecture in Burgos province, with a single barrel-vaulted nave in three bays and a tower, it was completed in 1188, enlarged in Gothic style and remodelled in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries following a fire that damaged the apse. It was declared a Monumento Histórico-Artístico Nacional (Spain's former highest heritage protection category, predecessor of today's BIC) on 3 June 1931 and is a Bien de Interés Cultural (Spain's highest level of heritage protection). A path leads from the church up to the dolmen of Las Arnillas, a Neolithic gallery grave of the Las Loras dolmen group.

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