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Collegiate Church of San Salvador de Cantamuda

La Pernía, Montaña Palentina, Palencia

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Collegiate Church of San Salvador de Cantamuda

Monument · La Pernía, Montaña Palentina, Palencia

Built between the 12th and 13th centuries beside the Pisuerga, in San Salvador de Cantamuda, the seat of the municipality of La Pernía, it has a Latin-cross plan with a central nave and two side aisles, narrow windows, arrow slits and a cornice supported by numerous corbels. The village grew up around this collegiate church, founded by the Countess of Castile María Elvira, wife of Count Rodrigo Guntis and niece of Ferdinand I, who was buried in it and under whose royal patronage it remained until Alfonso VII handed it over to the bishops of Palencia in 1123; the present building dates from 1185, when Alfonso VIII created the county of Pernía in favour of Bishop Raimundo. It was declared a Bien de Interés Cultural (Spain's highest level of heritage protection) on 4 February 1993.

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