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La iglesia del Santo Sepulcro de Torres del Río

Torres del Río, Tierra Estella, Navarra

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La iglesia del Santo Sepulcro de Torres del Río

Monument · Torres del Río, Tierra Estella, Navarra

Built between 1160 and 1170 in a singular Romanesque-Mudéjar style, this octagonal church is covered inside by a vault of interlacing arches forming a star, inspired by the domes of the mihrab of the Mosque of Córdoba. Its central plan, close to that of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, lies beside the French Way of the Camino de Santiago, declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1993. It was declared a monumento histórico-artístico ('historic-artistic monument', Spain's heritage protection category used between 1931 and 1985) in 1931.

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Photo: Krzysztof Golik (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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