9 Sights in Plasencia, Spain (with Map and Images)
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List of cities in Spain Sightseeing Tours in Plasencia1. Catedral de Plasencia
Among the city's plastic structures are two cathedrals: the Old Cathedral or the Church of Santa Maria, which is unique in providing buildings where two buildings overlap, differing in time and style. Today's Cathedral Museum is a building, a very interesting example of the transition from Romanesque to Gothic, and one of the city's greatest architectural values. Its construction began in the early 13th century, and its last original contribution took place in the 15th century. During these centuries, these works were created by French masters such as juan, JuanP é rez or DiegoD í az. In 1931, it was added to the National Monument List as part of cultural property. Notable is the Cantaloupe Tower, an ancient chapter hall that follows the model of the lighthouse of the Leon cimborrios Group. The new cathedral began in 1498 and continued in the 16th century in Gothic Renaissance style. The main architects of the century were more or less directly involved in its construction: enrique egas, juan de alava, francisco de colonia, alonso de covarrubias, diegodesilo é and rodrigogildehonta ñ o ó n. Many neighboring quarries are also very active, especially the Gonz á lez family. Of particular interest is the fact that inside the new cathedral building, the choir follows the chair line of the 15th-century Spanish choir, displaying the ruins of Catholic kings and the presidents of bishops, the works of German sculptors. Major altar paintings, carved by Gregorio Fern á ndez and his school of vallisoletana, painted by the Madridian of francisco rizi, Luis Fern á ndez and Gallardo mateo.
2. Puerta Berrozana
The Berrozanas Gate is a monumental gate located on the wall of the Spanish city of Plasencia, in the province of Cáceres. It receives its name because it is located at the exit of the fortification of the road that gives access to the meadow of Berrozanas, belonging to the neighboring municipality of Oliva de Plasencia. It is located on the western side of the wall, being connected to the Plaza Mayor by Berrozana and Los Quesos streets. Although it has medieval origins like the rest of the wall, its current Renaissance appearance dates from some reform works that took place in 1571.
3. Convento de San Ildefonso
The convent of San Ildefonso is a historic building of the fifteenth century located in the Spanish city of Plasencia, in the province of Cáceres. It was used as a convent of nuns, originally of the Second Order of San Francisco and in its last century of the Order of the Immaculate Conception, until in 2014 it was decided to exclaustration because there were not enough nuns to maintain it. Since then, the diocese of Plasencia provisionally administers the building to give it to a new congregation that is interested in inhabiting it.
4. Puerta del Sol
The Puerta de Sol or Puerta del Sol is a monumental gate located on the wall of the Spanish city of Plasencia, in the province of Cáceres. It receives its name because it is located on the eastern side of the fortification, being connected to the Plaza Mayor by Calle del Sol. Although it has medieval origins like the rest of the wall, its current Renaissance appearance dates from some renovation works that took place in 1573.
5. San Esteban
The Church of San Esteban is a Roman Catholic church in the Spanish city of Plasencia, in the province of Cáceres. It is located very close to the Plaza Mayor and gives its name to the square in front of its main portal. It was built in the fifteenth century and has a Gothic apse and a Plateresque-Baroque altarpiece. José María Gabriel y Galán got married here and there is a commemorative plaque that recalls that fact.
6. Palacio de los Monroy
The Monroy Palace or House of the Two Towers is a fourteenth-century palace located in the Spanish city of Plasencia, in the province of Cáceres. Together with the castle of the homonymous town, it was originally one of the two main headquarters of the House of Monroy, a powerful Plasentine noble family that came to accumulate several lordships in various places of the current province.
7. Los Arcos de San Antón
The aqueduct of Plasencia is one of the most representative monuments of Plasencia. It is located in the northern part of the city, near the old barracks. This pipe is not of Roman origin but was built in the sixteenth century by Juan de Flandes, as a substitute for another of the twelfth century and that passed through the current neighborhood of La Data.
8. Iglesia de La Magdalena
The magdalena Church is a historic medieval building located in the Spanish Plastic City of Caceres province. Originally built in the late Roman Catholic period, the building was one of the city's dioceses until the Peninsula War, when it was in ruins. It has been used as a cultural centre since 2013, known as a centre for promoting extreme handicrafts.
9. Santuario Virgen del Puerto
The sanctuary of the Virgen del Puerto is located about five kilometers from the center of the city of Plasencia, in the meadow of Valcorchero, in a place of fields and cork oaks, in the port of the road that linked the city with the Roman road Via de la Plata.
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