Description
The parish church of San Bartolomé was built between the 15th and 16th centuries with constructive schemes that respond to both the Renaissance and Baroque.
Its plant, basilical, has a wide and deafan space structured on three ships covered with flat roof. The ships are divided by five half-point arches that stand on pillars of unequal size, the lines being greater with the central ship. Both sides are located chapels. The architectural element that volumetrically stands out on the whole is the presbyterium, covered by a half-orange vault on pechines ornamented with trapezoidal geometric elements, to which it is accessed through a large half-point spinal arch. At the foot of the temple and raised on pillars is the choir.
From the artistic point of view the most valuable element is the altarpiece, inspired by the Italian model of Vignola, more specifically in his masterpiece, "the Gesu" of Rome, of great interest not only for its structure and the colossal use of the classical orders, but also for the richness and complexity of the iconographies both sculptural and pictorial that it houses.
The factory, which alternates the regular with the irregular, differentiates the basic plant and the head of the presbytery, and both the cover and the window voids of the first facade body are pointed and aboculated. The central body, of higher height, has three circular voids laterally to give light to its interior. The tower is a unique element due to the quality of the silo, the amplitude of its dimensions, the first of the small half-point voids arranged to axis with the wider window of the bell tower, the successive well-cared cornels - one adorned with gargolas, another long-lasting molding - and the four vases that crown its angles, work of the brothers John and Iñigo Mojica (1,553)
