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| Benavente Church of Santa Maria of Azoague
 Guest  2006/8/4 20:17
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The population of Benavente is located to the North of Zamora's (Spain) county, on a hill in the center of a great plain.Inside this general frames it is necessary to point out that the city registers in the fork of two geographical different areas so much physical as economically, like they are Campos' Earth and the area of the valleys watered by the rivers Esla, Tera and Órbigo.During the antiquity a Celtic city of the astures existed with the name of Brigaecium, capital of the brigaecios, a town of the astures augustanos. Benavente had great importance in the Half Age, and Fernando II of León it built a castle. In Benavente they took place Cortés in the XIII century.
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| Camarzana of Tera
Guest 2006/8/4 20:11
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Camarzana of Tera is a municipality of Zamora's (Spain) county, located in the riverside of the river Tera. According to the last census, it counted with 1.011 inhabitants The oldest vestiges in the town go back to the Age of Iron, in the one that the town settled in an area high and very protected call I castrate. Of the archaeological excavations carried out they have been multitude of ceramic vessels and the foundations of the typical Celtic pollozas in a circular way.He castrates, as primitive population, he/she left step to a Roman new village seated to their coat. Of this time they still appear multitude of fragments of Roman mosaics as well as remains of infrastructures urbanÃsticas like paving stones of streets or sewer system.
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| Cathedral of Zamora
Guest 2006/8/4 20:21
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The temple románico, has plant of three ships, in origin three apses that you/they should be seemed those of Colegiata of Bull, and that they were substituted in s.XV for the current ones Gothic and a not very marked cruise in plant. the transeptos covers with bóvedad of pointed cañóin, the lateral ships with vaults of edge capilazadas, and the central ship with vault of crucerÃa tardorrománica or protogótica, this is to the pleasure of each one. On the cruise, supported the dome internally he/she runs off with that is a drum perforated by 16 windows on which the two domes rise, a semicircular intern, gallonada, and another external one lightly pointed. The exterior is livened up with four cupulines that sireven to reinforce the corners and four frontons toward the cardinal points that bolster the vault.
The Salvador's tower, of 45 m of height, was built throughout s.XIII although the style is románico. It is times it should be battlemented. It served to the terrremoto of Lisbon like jail of the Town council.
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| Church of Figueruela of Above
Guest 2008/10/29 15:56
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| I populate of good people, beautiful mountain paisages and great tranquility. In summer their people you rehencuentran (emigramtes in their mayaria) and celabran the party of the summer in honor to Santa Irene, their employer. from these heights you leave an I almost magnify starry sky every night. |
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| Church of Saint John in Coomonte
Guest 2006/8/4 20:14
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Coomonte (Also called Coomonte De la Vega) is a municipality and place located in the north of Zamora's county, in the autonomous community of Castile and León (Spain). Their main source of revenues is from ancestral times the agriculture. In 1995, coomonte had 364 inhabitants and about 10 term km².Saint John the Baptist church, of plant basilical, with three ships, finished in three apses in way rectángular, with an altar in each one. Of the first apse, located in the northeast area of the church, it leaves a door toward the sacristy, the altar of this apse is Baroque, with great decoration and in the center the Virgin's image. In the main apse he/she meets the biggest altar with the sacrarium and Saint John the Baptist image in their center, an enormous decoration, and squares where the pattern's life is remembered. In the third apse we find the Virgin's image again in a decorated altarpiece and with columns. The roof of the two lateral apses is a vault of edges, with scarce decoration, while the central apse, is covered for a circular great dome, subject for pechinas, in each one of those which there are paintings that evoke the life of some saints. The rest of the church has a wooden roof, hidden after a reinforcement roof placed in the years 80 of the XX century.
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coomonte
Author of the picture: Daniel OrtÃz Description: Street of The Church in Coomonte (Zamora-Spain) with the temple of bottom Saint John the Baptist. |
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