Wamba You can boast many things. This small Castellanoleon municipality, of just over two hundred inhabitants, is unique in our country because there is no other that starts for that letter. He takes his name in the year 672, when the noble Wamba is chosen as a Godo monarch in this place. In addition, the people have belonged up to three dioceses: Zamora, Palencia and Valladolid, Eclosiastic District to which they currently belong.
But, among its few streets, the Temple of Santa Maríaone of the few Mozarabic churches that remains in Spain, which also keeps one of the authentic treasures of the Valladolid province, such as the Osarium of the Order of San Juan.
The careful church of Santa María de Wamba gets up About three stone ships With rectangular chapels in the header. It also presents a series of units on the side of the Gospel that give way to a patio, where there was a cloister. On the side of the epistle, located on the right side and called that because that is where the cards are read during the liturgy, there is a door sheltered by a column porch.
The temple is a Artistic styles mixture and vestige of the history of the municipality. Its construction date can be dated between the 10th and 12th centuries. The header and cruise, where the main nave is crossed with the transversal and where the altar is usually located, correspond to a Mozarabic building. On the other hand, the body is in a Romanesque style, they explain from the Consistory, as we can contemplate on its cover, chaired with a half -point arch.
They are not the only arches worth mentioning. The header is adorned with Horseshoe arches. Also in their altarpieces there are remarkable elements, such as a flamenco -style arch made in the 16th century with gold and silver.
A buried monarch and an impressive Osarium
Back in the 10th century, historians have confirmed that, together with the Church, there was a cloister of a monastery. There are currently some walls and, in the center, the visitor can find the grave where It is believed that the godo recessing monarch is buried.
On one of the walls of the cloister, one of the greatest treasures of this town is hidden, located in the Hontanija Valle about a thousand human skullsas well as other types of bones.
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