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The church of Santa María del Castillo

Fuentesaúco, La Guareña, Zamora

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The church of Santa María del Castillo

Monument · Fuentesaúco, La Guareña, Zamora

The church of Santa María del Castillo is the most distinctive building in Fuentesaúco and its main symbol; its apsidal head recalls an old fortification of uncertain origin. It combines the late Gothic of a chapel and, above all, the late Herrerian style of the fabric, from the early 16th century, probably built over an earlier structure. The interior, with a hall-church plan and pseudo-transept, is covered by a stucco dome; the most important part of the work, from the first third of the 17th century, is due to Hernando de Nantes Navega, and its tower, with an octagonal spire, belongs to the late Baroque. Declared a historic-artistic monument in 1973, it heads a heritage completed by the church of San Juan Bautista and the hermitages of Los Dolores and de la Virgen de la Antigua.

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