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The Mudejar tower of Santa María Magdalena

Matapozuelos, Tierra del Vino, Valladolid

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The Mudejar tower of Santa María Magdalena

Monument · Matapozuelos, Tierra del Vino, Valladolid

Image of Matapozuelos, not of the place itself.

The church of Santa María Magdalena dominates the town centre of Matapozuelos, in the Tierra de Pinares of Valladolid, with its prominent tower, popularly known as La Giralda de Castilla: three brick sections, the work of Morisco master builders, topped by a lantern, spire, iron ball and weathervane; the temple was begun in the mid-16th century and the tower completed in the early 18th. It is an outstanding example of 16th-century architecture that has undergone numerous alterations throughout its history, partly modifying its original structure. It preserves inside one of the most notable examples of late Gothic in the province, in the vault of the presbytery, together with great sculptural and pictorial richness in its altarpieces, for which it was declared a bien de interés cultural (heritage site) in 1998.

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