Small towns, the Santa Maria arc

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Small towns, the Santa Maria arc

The Santa María arc is one of the more emblematic monuments of the city of small towns. One of the ancient twelve doors of access to the city in the age intercedes, communicates the bridge of Santa María, on the Arlanzón river, with the plaza of saint Ferdinand, in which is straightened up the cathedral.The door was conceived to way of great arch of triumph, with organization of carving paintings representing a story in stone and with an end toped with merlons like small castle, which it does of the whole an architectural enough singular monument. In the six main, ready niches in two bodies and three are silent, important characters are found of the history of the city and of wool coating: the wool coating judges( blue-eyed grass shaves and Laín Calvo ); the four-o'clock overseers Rodríguez Porcelos, founder of the city, and Fernán González, first independent of overseer wool coating; the lord; and the Carlos I.Sobre swordfish they, with satchels of size minor, put two municipal mace-bearers in the extremes of a balustered |balconada| and the guardian angel of small towns by maintaining a reproduction of the city. Presiding all finds to him the blessed virgin María, patroness of small towns. The author of the statues is the sculptor Ochoa of Arteaga. The adornment is trimed with braid of loopholes, flank it two roast lightly cylindrical and come to an end it four |escaraguaitas| or ornamental sentry boxes.

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