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Church of San Lorenzo de Zorita del Páramo

Páramo de Boedo, La Ojeda, Palencia

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Church of San Lorenzo de Zorita del Páramo

Monument · Páramo de Boedo, La Ojeda, Palencia

The church of San Lorenzo, in the Palencia town of Zorita del Páramo, is one of the most complete examples of Palencia Romanesque, datable to the late 12th century although not finished until well into the 13th, as shown by its western portal. A Bien de Interés Cultural (Spain's highest level of heritage protection), it has been a national historic-artistic monument since 1966. It has a Latin-cross plan, a single nave with four bays, a lantern tower over the transept with a hemispherical dome, and a semicircular apse. In the 16th century a plateresque-style porch was added, with star vaults, which hides the south façade, along with a sacristy and the tower at the foot of the church; these alterations did not substantially change the original Romanesque fabric.

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