San Salvador de Cantamuda
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The Church of San Salvador de Cantamuda is one of the most impressive Romanesque buildings in northern Spain .
location
The former collegiate San Salvador de Cantamuda located in the municipality ( municipio ) of La Pernía in northern Castilian province of Palencia in the autonomous community of Castile and Leon . It is located near the headwaters of the Río Pisuerga at an altitude of almost 1200 meters above sea level. d. M. The nearest major city, Aguilar de Campoo , is about 43 kilometers to the southeast.
history
The original church construction goes back to a foundation made in the 11th century by Countess Doña María Elvira, the wife of Count Rodrigo Guntis and niece of Ferdinand I of León , who is also buried here. The current building was not built until the end of the 12th century, when King Alfonso VIII of Castile created the county of Pernía . The church was completed around the year 1200.
architecture
Exterior construction
The church is - the out except rubble built stair tower built of largely precisely hewn stone -. It consists of a nave with an adjoining transept with three apses , of which the two smaller lateral ones are only illuminated through a narrow window, while the central apse, which is extended to the east by a choir bay, has three windows and is also divided by short buttresses with attached double columns . The squat looking crossing tower barely rises above the roofs of the other components. The church is dominated by a two-storey bell gable ( espadaña ) over the west facade, the four openings of which are accompanied by inserted columns, and a portico ( galería ) - added later - on the south side. There is a largely decor-free archivolt portal both in the west facade, which is covered by a large blind arch, and inside the portico .
Interior
The short barrel-vaulted nave has only one nave; to the left and right of the crossing are two arms of the transept. The central apse is extended to the east by a choir yoke and covered with an unusual, unprofiled rib vault ; the three windows are framed by inserted pillars. The rib beams are missing from the two apse domes of the side apses.
Furnishing
The altar, which rests on seven massive truncated columns with mighty capitals, is of a very unusual design . Both the monolithic column shafts and the capitals are richly decorated with geometric, vegetal and braided ribbon motifs.
Central apse
altar
View in the evening
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Coordinates: 42 ° 58 ′ 0 ″ N , 4 ° 29 ′ 43.5 ″ W.