Najera, church and paintings representing a story of Santa Maria the real

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Najera, church and paintings representing a story of Santa Maria the real

The church, built halfway trough the XV century, it is of beautiful proportions, with three aisles and crossroads, sustained for ten columns. View from the exterior, surprises for the severity of your forms, with aspect of strength, lacking of large windows. They are original the cylindrical abutments of the head and crossroads of the temple. The tower has prismatic quadrangular form. In the construction of the temple they flow together several styles: Gothic, plateresque, rebirth, churrigueresque, etcetera. The vaults are of simple Gothic fan vaulting. The paintings representing a story of the high altar dates of principles of the XVIII century, of baroque style, and substitutes to other previous attributed to the Flemish school, that it keeps in part in the museum of Antwerp. In the center it appears the image soothes you of white wax taper female saint the real, by maintaining to the child in your left knee. It deals with of a chat polychromed |prerrománica| of Byzantine type, and it creates to him that was found in the year 1044 for the García present king. The rich treasures they went by a roundabout way to the image have disappeared, the more famous, an exceptional ruby, it place under the present time one of the more valuable jewels of the British corona.

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