The
Basilica of Ntra. Sra. de la Asunción (declared an Asset of Cultural Interest
with the category of Monument) began to be built in the year 1492. The
primitive temple, smaller than the current one, underwent a first restructuring
in 1560, when the nave was arranged central in a direction perpendicular to the
one it had, and in the years that follow 1614 the Main Chapel, the vault and
the roof are finished. At the end of the s. XVII, however, the temple is in
ruins due to the successive extensions of it and its chapels, which affected
the foundation, for which it was closed in 1694. Its reconstruction, begun a
year later, was carried out by the Council; The new temple, of which its
Baroque Rococo façade stands out, suffered in the middle of the s. XIX a fire
that forced to carry out renovations, including the construction of its
tower-bell tower, concluding the works in 1873.
Its
plan, with three naves, also has five lateral naves and the sacristy. In
addition to the main one, it has two side doors: that of San Pedro, on the left
façade, and that of Santa María, on the right. The primitive altarpiece of the
main altar was sold at the beginning of the s. XIX to pay for the renovation of
the floor of the Basilica and replaced by another one carried out in 1911 by
Sebastián Guillén and Manuel Carrillo (who also carved the pulpit in wood), and
which was destroyed during the Spanish civil war; the current one was made by
carpenters from Ciez in the 1940s and completed with six panels of Marian
motifs in 2004. Between 2008-2010, an organ of great artistic and musical value
was installed in the choir. The chapels and niches house a good number of
Processional Images; Thus, beginning a tour of the nave on the right, you can
see in them the Most Holy Reclining Christ and the Most Holy Virgin of Sorrow,
the Most Holy Christ of Blood, Our Lady of Greater Sorrow, Santa María
Magdalena, María Santísima de la Soledad and an ancient Image of the Lord of
the Holy Sepulchre. On one side of the High Altar is the altarpiece-chapel of
Nuestro Padre Jesús Nazareno. A reverse tour through the left nave will allow
us to contemplate the Holy Virgin of Beautiful Love, in the chapel of the Holy
One, and successively Saint John, the Ecce Homo and the Virgin of Faith,
(Brotherhood of the Descent of Christ), the Holy Virgin of Mercy, the Most Holy
Christ of Agony and the Lord of the Column.