Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción

How to get there

Heritage cataloging: Religioso
Locality: Montemayor del Río (Salamanca)
Path and stage:
  • Vía de la Plata desde Sevilla / Aldeanueva del Camino-La Calzada de Béjar
Address: Calle Castillo nº12
Coordinates: 40.348719142481, -5.8929419517517
Distance to the nearest axis of the path: 3.8 km

The building began construction work in the 13th century, giving it a late Romanesque style mixing Gothic details. In the 16th century the original factory was altered, from that period are: the façade at the foot of the temple, the bell tower, the two arches that support the roof of the temple together with the buttresses that support them on the outside, the altarpiece (modified in the 20th century, the original paintings could be under the new ones, everything has a homogeneous repaint), the pulpit and baptismal font. The church has a set of assets inside which are: two disc-shaped steles, carvings of saints, funerary tombstones, an image of Christ crucified (13th century), a stone image of Saint Michael killing the dragon made at the end of the Gothic. It is worth highlighting the conservation of frescoes and the plastering of the interior of the temple that are still preserved in the nave, although in some cases they were whitewashed, the main chapel does not preserve them. On the outside, it is worth mentioning: there was a porch which was dismantled in the 18th century, but the start of the roof on the main façade is still preserved, the entrances to the temple are more striking, the main one which is framed in an alfiz, both are Gothic style.

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Closed: Does not close

Visits

Free: YES

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