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The superb polychrome wood retable (12.50 by 9.50 meters), it is reckoned to be the third largest anywhere in Spain, after its counterparts at Seville and Toledo, exequo with Oviedo. Covers almost the back of the abside up to the vaults and enhanced with a geometric crown of Spanish Mudejar influence. The imaginary panel and seventy images in the hollows, and the detailed filigree work on canopies and traceries. Above, under a Calvary, stopping the vertical, it has and horizontal Mudejar dust cover with painted abstract geometric motives and gold starts representing Heaven with also figures of the sun and the moon.
In the center bottom, The sleeping of Mary (surrounded by the Apostles), one of the best scenes, complete the row at the left> The birth of Jesus, The Kings Adoration, and in the right, The killing of the innocent children, and Jesus in the Temple( at 12 years ). All of it centered by a Sedent Andra Mary, image from the XIV Century and above the beautiful Assumption of Mary, titular of the parish. |
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