Bell Tower

Cruelly mistreated during the War of Independence, as the traces of the bombs make clear, its recent restoration was completed in March 2001. Erected between 1764 and 1772, it was designed by Juan de Sagarbinaga. The lower body of the tower, the access doorway, overturns semicircular arch flanked by four columns of composite order that support a triangular pediment. Inspired by an engraving by Serlio or perhaps by the north façade of the cathedral of Zamora, a late 16th century work designed by Juan de Ribero Rada, a coat of arms with the cathedral's coat of arms is placed on the upper vertex of the pediment. The second body, excessively massive, has a simple balcony and two small windows on all sides. The body of bells, which is resolved by two separate semicircular openings flanked by paired pilasters and ends in a balustrade, ends in a ringed cupola that gives way to an openwork lantern on which rests a cupuline also with a ringed break.