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Data of the Town

Esquivias

Town

Esquivias

Municipality

Esquivias / Region: The Sagra

Province

Toledo

Community

Castile The Spot

Habt. / Ine 2004

4414

 

Town hall

Direction

Square of Spain, 1

ZIP code

45221

Phone

925520161

Fax

925520009

Office Tourism

To contact with telf. quoted

Official web

Esquivias

Web of Interest

 

E-mail municipality

esquivias@diputoledo.es

It is provided with a varied patrimony, we quote here: (to see more in the link)

TOWN HALL:
The building dates of 1798 and consists of a plant lengthened with two heights. The central body is formed by a portico with two columns exempt from order toscano on information and another two semicolumns attached to the side bodies, the four are realized in white Apiary stone. The top body is one open broker of wood, fastened by five right feet with cantilevers.

CATALINA'S HOUSE OF PALACES:
He marries palacial of the XVIth century. On the door there emphasizes the shield of family Salazar flanked on both sides by the crosses of Malta and Santiago, military orders to which his owners belonged. The truly important of this house is that it was where Catalina of Palaces, the young Cervantes wife, lived with his parents and brothers from his birth up to 19 years, age to which he married the distinguished writer.

PAROCHIAL CHURCH:
Constructed on the ruins of the primitive church of Santa Maria of the Asunción, which existed until 1786, where Cervantes and Catalina married. In 1785 it begun to be constructed preserving of the previous one the head, the tower and a font that dates of 1686. The building is of neoclassic style, but Mudejar Gothic of the tower was respected . The exterior is of tackle toledano and interior composes of a big square ship sustained by four Apiary stones columns. In the high altar there is a linen of the ends of the XVIIIth century signed by Miguel Loxes, who represents It Asunción de Maria. The presbytery contains several pictures as Her Blessed Virgin, of unknown author; The Adoration of Magi; The Virgin of the Pains, work of the XVIIth century of the painter from Segovia It saws; San Antonio of Padua, of Miguel Jacinto Meléndez; and one Flemish picture of The Virgin of the Milk. The sculptural work more important is the bust of the Virgin of the Milk, boss of Esquivias, a size in polychrome wood that from Granada sculptural school of Alonso Cano belongs to . In the walls of temple there are four linens: The dinner of Leví, The Samaritana, Her multiplication of the breads and the fish and The conversion of San Pablo in the way of Damascus, which they have as author to Ignacio de Prados.  (Fte.-Texto Delegation to see link)

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