The Church Saint Martin of Salamanca !!!

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We were back to my dear Spain again !! love it !! We came by car of course and took time to see new areas and old repeat with some of them as introduction to my sons and our dog Rex ! I rented a small house in a off the beaten path country town that was just perfect ! I like to continue the saga of our new road warrior experiences even if now with less in our family, This post is on my latest road warrior tour of wonderful sublime Spain.  Therefore, let me tell you about the Church Saint Martin of Salamanca !!! Hope you enjoy the post as I.

The City of Salamanca is capital of the province of Salamanca located in the Autonomous Community of Castilla y León, and in the kingdom of Spain. In 1988, the Old City was declared a World Heritage for UNESCO, The City is located 109 km from Ávila, 121 km from Valladolid, 123 km from Portugal and 214 km from Madrid.

The Plaza del Corrillo is a small square attached to the Plaza Mayor. On the left is the Romanesque Church of San Martín and on the right a series of houses with supports formed by stone columns finished in shoes that represent the days of the week (a moon for Monday, a Mars for Tuesday, etc.).

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The Church San Martín is of the Spanish Romanesque. The Church was built on a hermitage dedicated to Saint Peter in the 12C, specifically in the year 1103 at the initiative of Count Martín Fernández, in the neighborhood of Los Toresanos, during the repopulation of the city led by Raimundo de Burgundy by order of King Alfonso VI de León. At that time, in 1173,it was called the Church San Martín del Mercado or San Martín de la Plaza, At present the church consists of two accesses: the Romanesque cover or Puerta del Obispo, and the Renaissance cover. Originally there were three, but the central has been converted in the Capilla Camarín chapel, dedicated to Our Lady of the Angustias, to whose interior it is only accessed from inside the church

The interior of the Church San Martín shows one of the most revealing images of the effects that the Great Lisbon earthquake of 1755 had in many of Salamanca’s monumental buildings. Due to the tremor, many of the church stones must be during a second fraction in the air, enough for the pillars to incline and the dovelas of arches and vaults fell in a place that was not exactly the one they occupied even that moment, so that today walls and arched pillars, arches and deformed nerves are observed, The church has a three -nave plant ending in circular apses. Of the three the most relevant is that it occupies half, The Church San Martin does not have an dome or spire, and one of its main attractions is the choir, which dates back to the 16C and is Isabelino style. The main altarpiece was developed by Joaquín de Churriguera , The Capilla de Poniente (western), previously dedicated to the Virgen de las Angustias and now to that of Carmen, was resolved with dome on scalp that was a chapel of the Count of Grajal, founded in 1413, amended in 1784.

The City of Salamanca on its history : https://aytosalamanca.es/w/historia

The Salamanca tourist office on its heritage: https://salamanca.es/en/essential-salamanca/culture-and-cultural-heritage/monuments

The Castillay y Léon regional tourist office on the Church Saint Martin: https://www.turismocastillayleon.com/en/heritage-culture/churches-chapels/church-san-martin

The Unesco world heritage site on old town Salamanca: https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/381/

There you go folks , another wonderful nostalgic, sentimental trip to my dear Spain, Do not know when we will be back, we sure will have this trip in our hearts forever, Again, hope you enjoy this post on the Church Saint Martin of Salamanca !!! as I

And remember, happy travels, good health, and many cheers to all !!!

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I am a lover of travels to Europe , Americas , Africa and Asia as well ,who like to share my experiences of the last 53 years with the world, visiting so far 81 countries; living in 6, working in 5, and Citizen of 4, speaking fluently 4 languages. I can deal with sports especially football/soccer and love music, arts, wine collector/drinker, and go out to restaurants, and just visit the world. My background comes all the way from Candelaria and Pajara in Tenerife, Spain where my grandparents came from ;not knowing each other then, to Punta Brava, west of Havana, Cuba. There , my parents born in Cuba met and later on I was born there too. 100% guanche (annexed Tenerife to Spain on April 10 ,1496). I left Cuba as many have to Madrid, Spain where I lived for 4 years. Then, move to Perth Amboy ,New Jersey USA (living there 13 yrs) ; where I completed high school, became a US Citizen, learned to drive a car, and learned English. Afterward, went to the university in Florida, ERAU, and upon graduation decided to moved there to Ormond by the Sea, near Daytona Beach, finally moving North Miami, then Hialeah, then another moved to Silver Lakes division in Miramar, Broward county, Florida; in Florida I lived a total of 18 years. Finally , moved to France in 2003 ,Versailles call me for its royalty, and working in Paris was great. It was time to seek frontiers again and moved to Brech near Auray, Morbihan in Brittany , and later move to not too far Pluvigner. Total so far in France has been 20 years, and counting. Moving average a home every 5.5 years hopefully this will be my last. Cheers All rights reserved. No part of this blog may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the written permission of the copyright holder, me. No part of this work may be modified, without the written permission of the holder, me.No part of this work may be exposed to public view in any form or by any means, without identifying the holder as the author, and with the before mentioned permission.

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