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The name of Menasalbas derives of contraction of the Latin terms: "ore" (column) and "dawn" (half note). Therefore "Menasalbas" could mean "battlements white" MONUMENTS:
DESERTED PLACE OF JUMELA
Placed to 4 Km of the municipality, it is one of the built-up areas more ancient of the region, which became depopulated definitely to beginning of the S.XIX. Today only his temple stays in ruins that attracts attention for his fanlights in the shape of saeteras and four walls of his the only ship, to which the house of the priest was leaned. Of his houses only it stays stones disenimadas for the surroundings that serve for to surround the adjacent farms.
CHAPEL OF NTRA. MRS. OF THE HEALTH
Of only one ship with major wide chapel of polygonal apse with five sides of Gothic nervaturas, separated from the ship for an arch triumphal pointed, and it has two accesses, one in the piecero and other in side right.
CHAPEL OF SAN SEBASTIAN OR NTRA. MRS. OF CARMEN
Of rectangular plant of only one ship, with an access in the piecero that opens on the outside and smaller other.
PAROCHIAL CHURCH OF SANTA MARIA MAGDALEN
Temple of colossal proportions and three ships, raised in the S. XVI, and that substituted more modest other, architect Juan Aguirre takes the invoice of the big one , in his Gothic head and of Hernán Gónzalez, disciple of the big architect Juan Herrera. We find a chapel major than big slenderness in which it impresses his apse with ribs Gothic in his vault. The second phase, of later factory, us offers big columns finished off with capitals of taste Renaissance.
In his high altar it impresses the reredos of the Adoration of the Kings Magicians, proceeding from the missing Parish of Santa Maria of Kings of the deserted place of Caudilla.
ARCHAEOLOGICAL REMAINS
In the proximities of the marsh of the Torcón, in the middle of the gully real. Necropolis of approximately thirty anthropomorphic, excavated graves in the granitic rock. Accessible and of easy visit. They are of the same one invoice and caracrterísticas of those who are in the necropolis of Malamoneda or in the Rock Aerie.
ROLL
Placed on a square base of three bleachers, one raises column toscana. On the capital there is a child and coarse one moderate of two bodies to you formed for six columnillas cylindrical, a frame circular, six piece of news columnillas and a stone cupulín. (Fte.-Texto Delegation to see link) Nucleus: The Navillas |