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The voice Maqueda is of Arab origin, "Maqqada", that it means "stably", it "fixes", "firmly". The name is not known Latin or latinizado of Maqueda, one does not believe that it is that of Mazeda, of supposed Hebraic origin extracted of a popular folk song of Juan de Mena.
We stand out of his patrimony:
CASTLE:
It was long ago a vigilant position of the Romans. Towards year 981, the architect Fathoben Ibrahim the Omeya, builder who had been of big mosques of Toledo, and famously for his knowledge and his trips to the East, increased and perfected the Maqueda fortitude.
Reigning Enrique IV, Dª Elizabeth the Catholic lived during some through time in the castle of Maqueda, accompanied by his friend Dª Beatriz of Bobadilla, daughter of the Jailer of the Castle and who later was Marchioness of Moya.
It is of oblong plant, and one forms for four enormous ornaments that as high walls finished off by battlements award one classic aspect. Given the irregular of the area in which it settles, four curtains of this citadel are of different height. Them walls are of masonry and good ashlar in the details you form a corner. In you form a corner with it and to the coway of the longest walls, towers of circular plant place fortresses .
The detail that more has always paid the attention in this castle is the crowning of his walls, with a whit in which they show elegant battlements or merlones of very particular disposition.
PAROCHIAL CHURCH STA. MARIA OF THE CITADELS:
It appears in the most ancient documents of the Diocese of Toledo. he constructed inside the enclosure of the ancient fortitude or villetta. current tower - belfry was built in 1908, the existing one being used up to this date to approximately 35 m to the North, which was part formerly, together with the Tower of the Sail and that of the Infantas, of the enclosure walled. There consists the church of three ships separated by some bold arches, measuring 34 m long and 16 wide.
The first thing that is contemplated on having entered there is a capital, which serves of baptismal battery, Corinthian, 0,48 m high for 0,66 wide one. In ship of the right is Jesus's altar with the cross on the back, size that believes of Mountain-dweller. Opposite, in the ship of the Gospel, Abbot finds the monumental picture of San Antonio. In the first one prop of the right of the cruise, the Saint's reredos is Brígida, boss of Maqueda, proceeding from the Saint's parish On Sunday and face an identical table exists, of the S. XIII, which represents the virgin, acts of the Italian Duceio di Bouninsegna. In the ship of the right finds the reredos of Saint John Bautista, acts of Berruguete, with three bodies and atrium.
In the choir big organ of the S. XVII with copious trompetería.
THE ARCHES OR DOOR CALIFAL:
It is the most interesting rest that survives of the ancient fortitude of Maqueda, to which was giving brought in. It was a building body that reaches an adapted development to that similar factories came to to obtain in the Moslem fortitude. There appear firstly in this one brought in the remains of a barbican of turn, joined to which they see, to one and another side, big pointed arches of chairs, which supported a vault on which the platform would spread of adarve. Internally, there preserves almost finished the alley of door, length and strait, which the defense was reinforcing. (Fte.-Texto Delegation to see link) |
