CHURCH OF SAINT MARY MAJOR
Built on an ancient temple of Roman workmanship about 1270 , which is retained only the eastern -Torre tower Julia and headboard , with influences and Cistercian verifiable in its hemipoligonal path and straight absidiolas , the parish church of Santa Maria Maggiore has been throughout his more than seven years ; history the most important religious building in the Lands of Trujillo and somehow , the second in importance throughout the Diocese of Plasencia, behind the Cathedral Church , in whose image and likeness is one built .
After the box ships in the XIV century , which was added to the aforementioned header to replace another smaller entity , the building was configured as a Staggering Lounge Psudobasílica - ship or higher than the side without clerestory center . In the early sixteenth century, several teachers and stonework of origin vascongado Trasmeranorunning the new domes ships, with ribbed bands and warped , replacing primitives Angevin plementería guy in back round .
By 1540 , the master Sancho Solis Cabrera leads the construction of the choir, though still clad Gothic Renaissance ornamental backdrop syntax , the New - completed tower in the eighteenth century and the Baptistery .
Its rich trousseau furniture that decorates and gives meaning to the many catechetical funeral chapels that dot the building -de Vargas, Altamirano , Pizarro , Loaysa ... - especially noted for paintings altarpiece , made around 1490 by Fernando Gallego teachers Bartholomew and a hybridized style of strong Germans, Flemish and Castilian itself contrasts.
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