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Friday, December 31, 2010

Visit the Church of Santa Maria Maggiore - Algodres

The Church of Santa Maria Maggiore, located in the Town of Algodres is a temple built in the twelfth century Romanesque architecture, Mannerist and Baroque.
This is a church that has a longitudinal plan consists of nave and chancel, although narrower, with coverage inside differentiated false vaults wooden cradle, based on the cornice, with sacristy adjoining the right front side, staggered volumes . The ship's interior is dimly lit windows of two arch profile eighteenth century, appearing in the chapel, two slits in confronting capialço, seventeenth-century building. Main facade gable with bell in three ventanas to truncate the right side being torn apart by slightly pointed arched portal, based on columns, the only vestige of the primitive Romanesque building. Interior choir with wooden pulpit and square with side access via stairs on the side of the Gospel. Perfect triumphant arch, flanked by side altars and gilded polychrome Mannerist structure, following the architectural models by Giacomo Vignola, three axles and the top table. The main chapel has a carved and gilded altar of national style, straight from the plant, three axes, wide rostrum.
Church ranked as a Public Interest.

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