Old Abbey · Briones (EN)
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It is organized in two complementary volumes and forms, with the church tower, one of the most beautiful images of the town. The first floor has semicircular arcades, a useful resource to unify two structures perfectly differentiated from each other: the building on the corner of the Calle Mayor, from the second half of the 18th century, very much in keeping with the aesthetics of Juan Bautista Arbaizar (such is the case of those three balconies with linteled openings with mouldings of moulded ears and strong corbels and the adjoining one that faces the square, obeys very different motivations since its main floor is configured with a sequence of arches as an extension of the arcades of the base, attributing this part to Juan de Roan of the 17th century). XVII). It has not been an abbey as such, it is named after the house next to the church.