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Mudéjar hermitage of Santa Juliana

Navalmanzano, Tierra de Pinares, Segovia

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Mudéjar hermitage of Santa Juliana

Monument · Navalmanzano, Tierra de Pinares, Segovia

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Brick hermitage built in Mudéjar style, around which the local legend revolves; the municipality also preserves a Romanesque carving of the Virgin and Child dated to the late 13th or early 14th century. Its construction, of the so-called brick or Mudéjar Romanesque, is very characteristic of the Tierra de Cuéllar, which holds the largest concentration of this art in Castilla y León, and it bears a resemblance to the San Marcos hermitage of Campo de Cuéllar, though it stands out for its rectangular-plan chancel. Inside it preserves a 16th-century image known as the Cristo de Santa Juliana and a Baroque altarpiece from the parish church of San Justo y Pastor. According to legend, with no historical basis, the friars who guarded it disappeared overnight.

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