Santillana of the sea, dressed of the Romanica collegiate church

Cantabria Santillana of the sea, dressed of the Romanica collegiate church

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Santillana of the sea, dressed of the Romanica collegiate church

The constructive outline answers those of a church of three aisles of four sections and transept, three semicircular apses, a cylindrical tower, and dome on the crossroads. It is completed the whole with an university council and the abattial accessories. The sculpture of your |porticada| , capitals and trusses evokes the fundamental topics of the medieval religiousness, specially the fight between the good and the wrong, and the need of the penance and the pardon to save of the punishments of the hell. This message is shown through allegories and animal symbols ( lions, pelicans, whitecaps, ravens, snakes, goats...) and vegetable ( apples, ferns, acanthus, irises, grapevine, grapes, blows...) as well as some human scenes.

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