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Church of Santa María Magdalena de Torrelaguna

Torrelaguna, Sierra Norte, Madrid

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Church of Santa María Magdalena de Torrelaguna

Monument · Torrelaguna, Sierra Norte, Madrid

An Isabelline Gothic church, one of the finest examples of this style in the Madrid region, whose construction began in the 15th century and continued throughout the 16th until Cardinal Cisneros completed it; it was consecrated as late as the 17th. It has a basilical plan of three naves covered with Gothic ribbed vaults between buttresses that give onto several chapels, a 15th-century bell tower by Juan Campero and a 16th-century portal of the Resurrection by Juan de Cisniega and Juan Calderón; it preserves baroque and plateresque altarpieces, including a notable main altarpiece. It was declared a historic-artistic monument on 27 April 1983, today a Bien de Interés Cultural (Spain's highest level of heritage protection), and the poet Juan de Mena is buried there.

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