El Salvador Church · Sepúlveda (EN)

It is located at the top of the silhouette that creates Sepulveda, and can be seen from almost every corner of the town. It is one of the paradigms of the Castilian Romanesque and is considered one of the oldest buildings of this architectural style in the province of Segovia, as according to an inscription in the apse area began to be built in the year 1093. El Salvador is built under a strict Romanesque approach: a single nave, covered by a barrel vault, divided into three sections by transverse arches on pilasters, and a semicircular apse, of great beauty on the outside, covered with an oven vault. The most striking thing is its tower, of great height, for being exempt of the nave, although nowadays united by means of a small vaulted corridor. Every third Sunday of the month is celebrated in this church the mass of "Minerva", one of the most deeply rooted traditions among the inhabitants of Sepúlveda, which aims to worship the Blessed Sacrament. It consists of a Eucharist after which there is a procession in the atrium to the sound of drums and the smell of incense in which the priest carries the Blessed Sacrament under a canopy accompanied by the brothers of the Brotherhood of the Lord.