Holy Trinity Museum

The Museum of the Holy Trinity is a museum of sacred art and festive heritage installed in the church of the Trinity, in Atienza (Guadalajara), very close to the coordinates indicated. The tourist card of Castilla-La Mancha identifies it as a museum and places its main interest in the exhibition of religious pieces and the celebration of La Caballada, a festival with more than 800 years of history and declared of National Tourist Interest since 1986. The building is a 13th century church, of Romanesque origin, although at present it presents a mixture of styles due to historical reforms: the Romanesque apse is preserved and there are documented Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque additions. This architectural reading also appears on the tourist website of Atienza, which states that the temple was originally Romanesque and that its museum was opened in the early twenty-first century. Among the outstanding heritage elements are a Romanesque baptismal font, a Baroque altarpiece, the Christ of the Four Nails of the fourteenth century and other images and pieces of religious art linked to the temple. The collection also incorporates documents, photographs, costumes and items of the Brotherhood of La Caballada, which help to explain the historical continuity of this local celebration. The resource has, therefore, a double value: religious and ethnographic. On the one hand, it preserves the material memory of a medieval church; on the other hand, it acts as an interpretative space of one of the most emblematic traditions of Atienza, in the context of the remarkable monumental ensemble of this town in the province of Guadalajara.