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Santa Maria de Gracia Church in El Cerro de Andevalo: a baroque-mannerism jewel
Madrid – September, 2011
La Castilla del Oro Foundation, disembarks with a new project in Spain, more precisely in Huelva (Cerro del Andevalo). For this reason, we invite you to get to know the history, customs and life in general of this place in the old Europe, in which La Castilla del Oro Foundation assumes a new challenge; it will develop what its promoter, Engineer Richard Fifer – Carles, calls Social Responsibility of Second Generation.
SANTA MARIA PARISH CHURCH
Solemn and simple, majestical and tidy, the Santa Maria de Gracia Parish Church rises in the Plaza de España (Plaza of Spain) of El Cerro de Andévalo. Since its emplacement of honor, surrounded by the Santisima Trinidad Chapel and the City Council, Santa Maria de Gracia turns into reference and watchtower of the villa, as if it was taking care of the town and its people from the slenderness of its beautiful tower.
Main character of the municipality and center of all its outlines and views, the temple is considered an asset of Cultural Interest, in the category of Monument thanks to its wealth and singularity from a historic and cultural point of view.
In the conjunction of two artistic styles very differentiated, there is the Santa Maria de Gracia Church its main artistic peculiarity.
For one thing, the mannerism style, proper of the XVI century and taken to El Cerro by major master architect of the Archbishopric of Seville, Hernan Ruiz II, designer of culmination works of the Giralda of Seville, who the design and initial construction of the temple of El Cerro between the years 1562 and 1569 is attributed.
Accompanied in curious harmony to the mannerism, the baroque style is especially obvious and perfectly integrated in Parish Church of El Cerro. The architects of Sevillian Archbishopric, Andres de Silva and Antonio Matias de Figueroa, outstanding referrals of the XVIII baroque time, designed the layout of the sacramental chapel, the choir, the tower, the sacristy and the parish hall, using the decorative richness of its time.
Thanks to the unrepeatable ups and downs of History, the Santa Maria de Gracia Parish Church in El Cerro de Andevalo is now a privileged place to admire the peninsular artistic evolutions from the beginnings of the Modern Age.
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