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Torrecilla de la Orden

Torrecilla de la Orden, Tierra del Vino, Valladolid

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Torrecilla de la Orden

Village · Torrecilla de la Orden, Tierra del Vino, Valladolid

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.

Photo: Fundación Joaquín Díaz / Cayetano Enríquez (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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