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Najera, church and reredos of Santa Maria the Real one
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| The church, built by the middle of the XV century, it is of beautiful proportions, with three ships and cruise, sustained by ten columns. See from the exterior, it surprises for the severity in their ways, with aspect of strength, lacking of large windows. They are original the cylindrical buttresses of the head and cruise of the temple. The tower has prismatic square form. In the construction of the temple several styles converge: Gothic, plateresque, rebirth, churrigueresque, etc. The vaults are of simple crucerÃa. The altarpiece of the biggest altar dates of principles of the XVIII century, of Baroque style, and it substitutes to another previous one attributed to the flamenco school that is conserved partly in the Museum of Antwerp. In the center the image sedente of sacred marÃa appears the Real one, sustaining the Boy in its left knee. It is about a size policromada prerrománica of Byzantine type, and it is believed that it was found in the year 1044 by the king Don GarcÃa. The rich treasures that surrounded to the image have disappeared, the most famous, an exceptional ruby, constitutes one of the most valuable jewels in the British crown at the present time. |
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