Villafranca de la Sierra
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Villafranca de la Sierra is a municipality located in the province of テ」ila,
Castile and Leテウn Castile and Leテウn ( es, Castilla y Leテウn ; ast-leo, Castiella y Lliテウn ; gl, Castela e Leテウn ) is an autonomous community in northwestern Spain. It was created in 1983, eight years after the end of the Francoist regime, by the merging of the ...
, Spain. According to the 2004 census ( INE), the municipality has a population of 176 inhabitants.


Monuments


Our Lady of the Assumption Parish Church

Our Lady of the Assumption Parish Church is from the fifteenth century, made of hewn stone, with a single storey nave belfry tower. It sits on an earlier Romanesque temple. The oldest part, possibly from the fourteenth century, is the chapel which is closed in a semicircle. The altarpiece is dated 1690. The apse is circular, with two lateral entrances, rebuilt in 1600. Its single nave has three semicircular arches with rich moldings, with balls in their chapiters, and rather complicated bases. Perhaps the nave did not rest on them, but on armor skirts, but what is visible today are plaster vaults. The main arch is likewise round, rebuilt in the sixteenth century. But the chapel is perhaps older than the nave, closed in a semicircle.


References

Municipalities in the Province of テ」ila {{テ」ila-geo-stub