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Church of St. Nicholas of Bari

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This building underwent two separate construction stages. The first was to build the main chapel and transept, in Renaissance style during the 16th century. The second was to build the rest of the church in the first third of the 17th century, adopting the Baroque style. In 1628, Friar Alberto de la Madre de Dios was involved in the building of the body and towers. 

The building has a compact, rectangular floor plan which is 38.8 metres long and 16 metres wide, featuring a single nave with a five-sided chancel, buttresses and side entrances. Inside there are five chapels that open into the nave. The nave is covered by a barrel vault. The transept has a groin vault, and the main chapel has a hemispherical dome. The choir sits high at the base and is supported by a semicircular arch. On the right-hand side of the sanctuary is the old sacristy. 

On the outside, two towers stand out at the foot of the church. They are made of the same material as the rest of the church. They consist of one body and a belfry with semicircular arches on the front of each. They are topped with hipped roofs.

 

View of the parish church, the oldest building in the municipality, in Renaissance-Baroque style, dating from the 16th–17th centuries.

Logos funded by the European Union NextGeneration, the Ministry of Industry and Tourism, the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan, the Community of Madrid, ARACOVE, and Madrid Rural.

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