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The Herrerian bell-gable of San Martín de Tours

Torre de Esgueva, Páramos del Esgueva, Valladolid

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The Herrerian bell-gable of San Martín de Tours

Monument · Torre de Esgueva, Páramos del Esgueva, Valladolid

The Romanesque chevet of San Martín de Tours is of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, with a semicircular apse and a Latin-cross plan; between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries a Herrerian bell gable of grandiose and harmonious proportions was added to it.

Photo: Araceliescudero (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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