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Church of Nuestra

Señora Entre Dos Alamos:



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The Parish Church of Nuestra Señora Entre Dos Alamos is located on the north side of the Plaza Mayor, on a slightly raised platform in relation to the remaining field. The complex architecture of this church is notable, as a result of the numerous changes made in it across the time. The church originally was Romanesque,of which still remains a semicircular arch door on the north wall, now blinded, a chapel with modillions in the cornice line, and the main façade. It shows a round arch with archivolts slightly pointed, three columns and capitals on each side plant, enabling dating it in the early thirteenth century. In the mid-sixteenth century the temple was extended to gain its final configuration: a basilica shape with three naves, choir at the base and a single polygon with starry head rebuilt in the late nineteenth after having collapsed due to fire. The naves are separated by large semicircular arches supported by columns with Doric capitals, and covered with wood paneling. Also of XVI is a tower that was attached to the header, the southern doorway with rectangular frame that gathers the square and several windows with round arch. The hood of the lawyer D. Bartolomé del Corral was lifted and well in the eighteenth century the upper body of the existing tower was changed and a new one made according to the plans and conditions given by the “mirobrigense” architect Manuel Moines. Featured artists worked for the parish church. Stands the painter Luis de Morales, who between 1572 and 1574 made the altarpiece, destroyed in a fire together with the fourteenth century original wood paneling, the organ, numerous archive documents belonging to the village and parish, which were kept in one of the chapels and several wooden altarpieces. In the aisles, stand two Renaissance chapels of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Under the pavement of the temple, carved stones, are the graves of the principal families of San Felices. The lifting of bell towers dates from the XVIII century. The arms of the town of San Felices and the Dukes of Alba are still preserved inside the temple.


Augustinian Convent of the Passion:



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With close proximity to the parish church we find the Convent of the Augustinian of the Passion, originally designated as the Convent of the Passion of Religious Canons Regular of St. Augustine. It was founded, at around 1508, by Doña Petronila Cuadrado, given a Ponfitical Bull by Julius II, thanks to the economic collaboration of the Catholic Monarchs and especially the alms contributed by the villagers. Since then the town's history has paralleled that of the small community of Augustinian religious canonesses, in whose walls lived the well-known Mother Trinidad. Not to mention the interesting works of art that guards inside.Iin terms of architecture, unknown are the authors of the original convent, refurbished at different stages. Thus, at first, in the sixteenth century the main entrance of the convent and the lookout tower are built-up. By the late seventeenth century, the architect Christopher Honorato and San Miguel, did, among other works, the restructuring of the cloister. And in a third stage, in mid-eighteenth century, a new Baroque church was built, beautifully proportioned and rectangular, with low and high choir occupied by the Augustinian community, attended by the Master Mason Juan Vicente, Juan de Otero and Jose Vicente Castellanos, under the probable direction of the Portuguese architect Manuel Mendez, explaining its strong affiliation with Lusa Baroque architecture. Subsequently the cells were also constructed.On the front of the church the Portuguese masons shaped the shield of the founding abbess, it displayed the insignia of her office: crosier and miter, the heart of the shield of the Augustinian Order and the five wounds in a cross, the emblem of the monastery. Inside the church are two fantastic wooden altarpieces without polychrome .