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Church of Santa María de Aguilafuente

Aguilafuente, Tierra de Pinares, Segovia

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Church of Santa María de Aguilafuente

Monument · Aguilafuente, Tierra de Pinares, Segovia

The synod of 1472 was held in this church. It preserves a Romanesque-Mudéjar brick apse and a 15th-century Gothic porch, on whose tympanum a relief of the Annunciation was carved. Located on the main square of Aguilafuente, it has been the municipality's only parish since the church of San Juan was closed to worship in 1842. Built in the 12th century in Mudéjar style, of which it retains the central apse and the tower, it was transformed by successive alterations that added the Gothic of the doorways and the Baroque of the interior. The 1472 diocesan synod, convened by the bishop of Segovia Juan Arias Dávila, gave rise to the Sinodal de Aguilafuente, considered the first book printed in Spain.

Photo: Ángel Luis Alfaro (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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