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Church of Santa María del Castillo

Cervera de Pisuerga, Montaña Palentina, Palencia

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Church of Santa María del Castillo

Monument · Cervera de Pisuerga, Montaña Palentina, Palencia

The church of Santa María del Castillo, also known as Nuestra Señora de la Asunción, stands on a rock overlooking the town of Cervera de Pisuerga (Palencia); its dedication recalls the old fortress that once stood on the site. It is a building in flamboyant Gothic style, constructed in several stages during the 15th and 16th centuries, with a single nave, two side chapels acting as a transept, a polygonal chancel and a choir at the foot, covered with ribbed vaults. The chapel of Santa Ana holds a Hispano-Flemish walnut altarpiece by Felipe Vigarny and León Picardo, and the altarpiece of the main chapel, a 1607 work by Juan Gil del Barrio Palacio, includes the 14th-century Gothic image of the Virgen del Castillo. It was declared a Bien de Interés Cultural (Spain's highest level of heritage protection) in 1978.

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