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Church of San Miguel de Sotosalbos

Sotosalbos, Alfoz de Segovia, Segovia

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Church of San Miguel de Sotosalbos

Monument · Sotosalbos, Alfoz de Segovia, Segovia

The church of San Miguel de Sotosalbos, a Romanesque temple of the 12th century and a historic-artistic monument (an earlier heritage-protection category, predecessor of the Bien de Interés Cultural) since 1973, was built over an earlier, simpler church from the late 11th century, from which the rectangular plan of the apse derives; the porch and tower date from the 13th century, and the capital at its entrance depicts the Adoration of the Magi beneath trilobed arches. With a single nave, rectangular apse, a porch to the south and a bell tower next to the apse, it offsets its simplicity with decoration of monsters, centaurs and sirens, and warriors and jesters among the corbels of the cornice. In the tower there is a small museum with the seated image of Nuestra Señora de la Sierra, from the 13th or 14th century, and a Gothic-Renaissance cross bearing the hallmark of Antonio de Oquedo. The surroundings still preserve a farrier's shoeing frame, old fountains and a stone cross.

Photo: David Perez (CC BY 3.0)

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