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Church of San Esteban de Alija

Alija del Infantado, La Bañeza, León

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Church of San Esteban de Alija

Monument · Alija del Infantado, La Bañeza, León

A Catholic church in Alija del Infantado (León) whose original construction is thought to date from the 13th-14th centuries and which is believed to have once been part of a convent. On 6 May 1993 it was declared a Bien de Interés Cultural (Spain's highest level of heritage protection), with the rank of monument, by a decree published six days later in the Official Gazette of Castilla y León, signed by the President of the Junta, Juan José Lucas, and the Minister of Culture, Emilio Zapatero Villalonga; it is the only protection of that rank in a municipality that until 1960 was called Alija de los Melones and which also includes the hamlets of La Nora del Río and Navianos de la Vega.

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