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What to see and do in Torrecilla de la Orden

What to see and do in Torrecilla de la Orden (Tierra del Vino, Valladolid): 4 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

1 Villages · 1 Monuments · 1 Activities · 1 Curiosities

How far each place is from the centre of Torrecilla de la Orden

The Church of Santa María del Castillo de Torrecilla 200 m

Towns near Torrecilla de la Orden

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What to see and do in Torrecilla de la Orden

Torrecilla de la Orden
Village
Torrecilla de la Orden is a village of 226 inhabitants in southern Valladolid, in the Tierra del Vino comarca, near the boundary with Salamanca and Zamora, through which the river Guareña runs from south to north. In the Middle Ages it belonged to the Kingdom of León, within the Encomienda sanjuanista of Fresno el Viejo, the eastern boundary with the Comunidad de Villa y Tierra de Medina del Campo, and until the 19th century it was attached to the province of Toro. Its church of Santa María del Castillo, declared a Monumento Histórico-Artístico (a heritage-protection category, predecessor of the current Bien de Interés Cultural) in 1982, has three naves under plaster vaulting, a shallow dome over the main chapel, a Plateresque altarpiece and a Mudéjar coffered ceiling with delicate interlacing; its Mudéjar tower, begun in the 15th century on an ashlar base, was completed in the 16th and 17th centuries.
The Church of Santa María del Castillo de Torrecilla
Monument
Declared a monumento histórico-artístico (a former Spanish heritage category, now subsumed into the Bien de Interés Cultural designation) in 1982, this three-nave church, its naves separated by pillars, combines a plaster vault over the central nave with barrel vaults and lunettes over the side aisles, a shallow dome over the main chapel, and a Mudéjar strapwork coffered ceiling, alongside a notable plateresque altarpiece. The tower began to be built in Mudéjar style during the 15th century on an ashlar stone base; in the 16th and early 17th centuries it continued in Renaissance style, with a belfry and classical cornice, and in the late 17th century it was topped with a Baroque octagonal dome, crowned by a copper armillary ball and a wrought-iron weathervane cross.
The Holy Face by Zurbarán
Curiosity
About 800 metres from the built-up centre of Torrecilla de la Orden (Valladolid), reached along a track, stands the Baroque hermitage of Nuestra Señora del Carmen, built of brick in the 17th century. Its interior preserves solomonic columns and a polychrome wooden altarpiece; in the upper part of this altarpiece a famous painting by Zurbarán titled la Santa Faz was kept for centuries. The painting left the hermitage in 1968 and has since been held at the Museo Nacional de Escultura de Valladolid.
The Pentecost pilgrimage to the Carmen hermitage
Activity
At Pentecost the residents go up in pilgrimage festival to the hermitage of El Carmen; on 25 August San Ginés de Arlés fills the streets with bull runs and on 15 May the fields are blessed for San Isidro Labrador.