Parroquia de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción

Magnificent building both outside and inside, very large, very clean and very beautiful. Your visit is recommended

Church of Our Lady of the Assumption in Torija It is a Renaissance temple, built surely on an old Romanesque church. It was a public speaking school. It has a slender square tower with a bell tower and a Renaissance façade with an attractive gate and a solid wood door bearing the shields of the Alonso Gamo and Sandoval families, donors of this piece. On the exterior façade of the temple there is a plaque that commemorates Friar Juan and Friar Francisco Coronel, monk brothers born in Torija and missionaries in America during the first years of evangelization. And to Lorenzo Suárez de Mendoza y Figueroa, who became viceroy of Mexico and Peru. In one of the naves there is a small baroque altarpiece recently restored and numerous shields distributed by the columns of the temple. The chapel located in the lower part of the tower allows you to admire the ashlar stones that support the bell tower. On the floor of the building there are several burials, including that of Doña Juana de Cisneros, niece of the great Cardinal, and that of the brilliant theologian, jurist and diplomat born in Torija Bernardino de Mendoza, a true mentor of his castle and his church, who was Right hand and confidant of Felipe II. Inside the temple, with a Latin cross plan and three naves, the beautiful Plateresque arch that serves as the entrance to the presbytery stands out and behind it the ribs of the vault over the Gothic-style altar. The original altarpiece was replaced, after the civil war, by another from the town of Atienza. It is Renaissance with smooth columns. In the choir there is a baptismal font from the 15th century and a Gothic iron grate that once stood on the main altar.

Beautiful church of the XVI century, declared BIC in 1991. It is next to the square and the Castle, from which, the latter, you can see beautiful views from there.

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The parish priest was very kind to teach me the whole church.