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Church of San Millán de Baltanás

Baltanás, El Cerrato, Palencia

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Church of San Millán de Baltanás

Monument · Baltanás, El Cerrato, Palencia

Parish church situated on the Cerro del Castillo, the highest point of the historic centre of Baltanás, already documented in 1030, when King Sancho Garcés III donated his church of San Miguel, next to the town's old cellars. Rebuilt in 1585 to a design by Alonso de Tolosa and the work of the master Francisco del Río over an earlier building, its hall-plan interior is divided into three naves covered by ribbed vaulting, with a raised choir with a Plateresque parapet at the foot. The main altarpiece, from 1664 and Baroque in style, has at its centre a sculpture of San Millán surrounded by four paintings of his life by Felipe Gil de Mena, and is crowned by the Cristo del miserere, a Romanesque crucifix linked to a local legend. Its bell tower, completed in the late 17th century in ashlar stone, retains three of its six original bells.

Photo: Germán López Bravo (Public domain)

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