San Juan Church

The old parish church of San Juan, originally from the 12th century, is a Romanesque temple with a single nave topped by a semicircular chancel, of which the apse remains standing with three semicircular arches with three archivolts, with the presbytery facing east, this being characteristic of the style. Later, in the 16th century, it underwent an intense remodeling. Of note are the doorway at noon, with four archivolts decorated with four-petaled flowers, half spheres, taqueado and abacuses with stars; a Plateresque sepulcher with a recumbent figure that, according to the chronicler Pelayo Artigas, belonged to the illustrious Don Juan de Daza, governor of the county of San Esteban de Gormaz; and the chapel of San Sebastián, in the post-medieval Gothic style, built in 1526 on the south side of the nave. The inscription on the latter reads: "This chapel was built and endowed by the very noble and thus discreet man Pedro Gutiérrez, a native of this town, treasurer and secretary of the most illustrious lords Don Diego López Pacheco and Doña Juana Enríquez, Marquises of Villena. Year of 1526 years" Suppressed the parish in 1796, in 1821 it was already ruined. In the sixties it would be obtained by its current owners, who reformed it and installed a museum of Art Brut.