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Church of saint Matthew

The church of saint Matthew, of Gothic style, it is the more important temple of the high part of the Cáceres monumental city.Begun in the XVI century, rises on a busy ancestral home centuries back for a mosque, first, and other Christian church, after. They directed the Stephen work of Lezcano, first, Pedro Ezquerra to beginnings of the XVI century, Pedro of Marquina after and Pedro of Ibarra, who concluded the work. The Sande chapel was carried out by Rodrigo Gil of Hontañón and the cover, of the grand master it runs away will trim with iron, it is of plateresque style. Is formed for a flanked basket-handle arch for columns in whose spandrels it appears two large medals with the effigies of saint Pedro, to the left, and saint Paul, to the right. In the center of the frieze finds to him saint Matthew. The tower, sober and lacking of adornments, last built element, date of 1780.http ://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iglesia_de_San_Mateo_%28C%C3 %A1ceres%29

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