Serrano Street Medina , 2, 19250 Siguenza, Guadalajara ; Spain
Siguenza cathedral as worthy of study and contemplation by merit and importance, never visit without regretting the effect of choir , which squandered the seventeenth century with the mass of marble and gilded carvings really destroy the effect of the admirable lines cathedral .
Behind the choir is a target heavy baroque composition of black jasper Calatorao , Jiloca Sources and red, Cehejin with whimsical spiral columns , seventeenth century work too baroque decoration .
These twisted columns are joined to the name of the architect Juan de Lobera ( 1665 ) , Madrid , helped by Pedro de Miranda ( 1669 ) .
The beautiful black marble columns " proto baroque " ( without litter) can date them before 1670 , because its implementation was made on the initiative of Bishop Andrés Bravo de Salamanca.
We refer to the sumptuous marble altarpiececontains the altar of the Virgin of Santa Maria Maggiore , the city's patron .
The image, whose origin seems to date back to the early days of the restoration of the cathedral and therefore belongs to the twelfth century, was the head of the church , being replaced in the altarpiece by the mystery of the Assumption.
This effigy was campaign ( belli partner ) , ie battle companion .
Has a concavity with the back doors where relics and consecrated forms wore . It's kind of Eucharistic .
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Altar Nuestra Señora de la Mayor
Calle del Serrano Medina, 2 |
Serrano Street Medina , 2, 19250 Siguenza, Guadalajara ; Spain
Siguenza cathedral as worthy of study and contemplation by merit and importance, never visit without regretting the effect of choir , which squandered the seventeenth century with the mass of marble and gilded carvings really destroy the effect of the admirable lines cathedral .
Behind the choir is a target heavy baroque composition of black jasper Calatorao , Jiloca Sources and red, Cehejin with whimsical spiral columns , seventeenth century work too baroque decoration .
These twisted columns are joined to the name of the architect Juan de Lobera ( 1665 ) , Madrid , helped by Pedro de Miranda ( 1669 ) .
The beautiful black marble columns " proto baroque " ( without litter) can date them before 1670 , because its implementation was made on the initiative of Bishop Andrés Bravo de Salamanca.
We refer to the sumptuous marble altarpiececontains the altar of the Virgin of Santa Maria Maggiore , the city's patron .
The image, whose origin seems to date back to the early days of the restoration of the cathedral and therefore belongs to the twelfth century, was the head of the church , being replaced in the altarpiece by the mystery of the Assumption.
This effigy was campaign ( belli partner ) , ie battle companion .
Has a concavity with the back doors where relics and consecrated forms wore . It's kind of Eucharistic .
In Google Translate
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