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Founding inscription of Recceswinth

Venta de Baños, El Cerrato, Palencia

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Founding inscription of Recceswinth

Historical milestone · Venta de Baños, El Cerrato, Palencia

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A marble slab written in hexameters records that the Visigothic king Recceswinth ordered the church to be built in 661, in the third year after the tenth of his reign; the consecration is placed on 3 January.

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Photo: José Luis Filpo Cabana (CC BY 4.0)

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