Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #1 in Cuenca, Spain

The church of Santísimo Cristo del Amparo in Cuenca (Spain) was built at the end of the 16th century and is located in the neighborhood of Los Tiradores. In the 15th century, this neighbourhood saw the arrival of humble people who came to the big city in search of work. The need to care for this population moved the Church to promote the Chapter of St. Catherine of Mount Sinai, as a hospital for the care of the shameful poor.

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The convent of San Felipe Neri, in Cuenca (Spain), built by José Martín, based on designs given by Felipe Bernardo Mateo, master of the diocese of Cuenca.

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The Church of the Santa Cruz in Cuenca (Spain) was one of the first parishes in that city. It was a modest construction, of a ship, which was made of masonry and wood cover. It currently houses an interesting museum, the Roberto Polo collection.

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The Museum of Cuenca is located in the so-called Casa del Curato, in the old town of Cuenca (Spain). Opened in 1974, it has three sections: Archaeology, Ethnology and Fine Arts. Its numismatic collection is also remarkable.

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The Casas Colgadas is a complex of houses located in Cuenca, Spain. In the past, houses of this kind were frequent along the eastern border of the ancient city, located near the ravine of the river Huécar. Today, however, there are only a few of them remaining. Of all of these structures, the most well-known is a group of three with wooden balconies.

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The San Pablo bridge is a beam bridge that crosses the Huécar River in the Spanish city of Cuenca.

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Cuenca Cathedral is a Gothic cathedral in the city of Cuenca, located in the Province of Cuenca in the Castile-La Mancha region of south-eastern central Spain. The building is one of the earliest Spanish examples of Gothic architecture, built at a time when the Romanesque style predominated in the Iberian Peninsula. In particular, the cathedral is characteristic of the Norman and Anglo-Norman architecture of the 12th century, of which Soissons Cathedral, Laon Cathedral and Notre-Dame de Paris are representative examples.

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Federico Muelas was a poet, journalist, editorialist and Spanish film screenwriter belonging to the generation of 36.

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The church of San Nicolás de Bari located in Cuenca (Spain) seems to have already been built in the 15th century, although architecturally speaking, its structure does not resemble the typical Renaissance buildings of this century. Its original structure consisted of a rectangular floor plan with a stone apse at its head, a structure that is closer to the approaches of Romanesque architecture than to Renaissance architecture. As well as the south-facing orientation of its main façade, also typical of Romanesque churches.

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The Convent of San Pedro de las Justinianas in Cuenca (Spain), dates from the mid -18 Although who really designed it was the first of them.

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The Science Museum of Castilla-La Mancha is a museum facility dependent on the Junta de Comunidades de Castilla-La Mancha located in Cuenca and inaugurated on January 15, 1999. Its most important collection corresponds to the fossils of the paleontological site of Las Hoyas, with 14,000 pieces and 24 holotypes.

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