Parroquia de la Transfiguración

Parish of the Transfiguration. Akerreta Of medieval origin with a fortress reinforced tower with two buttresses. It has a rectangular ground plan with four sections including a straight head, to which a rectangular sacristy is attached on the Epistle side. A markedly horizontal exterior in which the different stages can be seen, such as a medieval ashlar tower and the upper part of the nave and a sacristy in already Baroque masonry. The part of the cover also presents, like the tower, high quality ashlar. Door with a semicircular arch with two archivolts resting on upright feet on the impost. It has two baptismal fonts, two altarpieces, a tombstone and some carvings. The first of the baptismal fonts is preserved in the sotocoro and dates from medieval times. It consists of a prismatic shaft with chamfered corners decorated with remains of reliefs and a smooth hemispherical cup. The second of the piles is located on the Epistle side and has a square base with moldings, a polygonal shaft and a hemispherical bowl with a molded edge. The altarpiece is Renaissance within the central stage of the period between 1551-1553. Oscáriz leaves with this altarpiece an interesting example of the Renaissance style between the Italian and the Flemish. It has a Renaissance design with a small pedestal of boards decorated by cherubs and grotesques. The three bodies of columns and scallops support it. The friezes that separate the different bodies and the board that crowns the central street are also decorated with cherubs and grotesques. The painted iconography presents in the first body the Prayer in the Garden, the Flagellation, Christ carrying the cross and the Pieta. The second body presents a bishop, Saint Bartholomew, the Baptism of Christ and Saint Anthony. In the third body Santa Catalina, Santa Bárbara, Pentecostés, Santa Lucía together with Santa Quiteria and La Asunción. In the central street are the tabernacle, the somewhat crude image of the owner and a Crucified Christ in the attic. The second is the altarpiece of the Virgin, located on the Gospel side, neoclassical in appearance but which in turn takes advantage of some baroque element, such as corbels of foliage with Atlantean children on the bench. Above it, a body with a central niche rises and the attic is resolved in a street between flanges of baroque foliage and the triangular pediment at the end. A polychrome imitating marble persists. The holder is represented with the image of the seated Virgin and Child in the Gothic style of the early fourteenth century somewhat crude, while the San Antón in the attic is modern. In the presbytery there is, in addition to the main altarpiece, a tombstone with an inscription and date of 1670. Finally, in the choir there are two carvings of children with shields from the same period as the altarpiece to which they may have belonged. Also found here is a 17th century canvas framed by a semicircle that represents the Virgin accompanied by Santa Ana and San Joaquín. A 16th century wooden ciborium with primitive polychromy and a chest with a smooth prismatic lid from the same period as the ciborium.