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Chapel of el Oidor

Alcalá de Henares, Cuenca del Henares, Madrid

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Chapel of el Oidor

Monument · Alcalá de Henares, Cuenca del Henares, Madrid

A family pantheon commissioned by Pedro Díaz de Toledo, a judge under Juan II, it is the oldest part of Santa María la Mayor; beneath its Gothic plasterwork stands the font in which Cervantes was baptised on 9 October 1547, moved here in 1905.

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