Town: The AsunciónAddress: Adjacent with the Plaza Bolívar
Date of Construction: 1.609 - 1.621 Historical period: XVI Century
Type of Monument: Religious State of Conservation: Good
Observations: In 1.571, the visitor of Sacred Domingo's Order, Fray Juan of Manzanillo, built a very main Church in the Asunción's city, which was
destroyed later years by the French luterianos. For 1.602, the Church was in ruins and alone the chapel biggest is made of brick and mud. Alone in the year
1.609 the construction of a new Temple is undertaken, four years later the temple already has the lifted walls and the pillars where the arches must rest.
The Biggest Chapel is finished and the body of the church was to cover. Finally the Church was finished in the year of 1.621 just as it refers in the tablet located in the north part of the building.
General description: It Plants Rectangular of 17 mts of wide for 48 meters long, composed by three ships, arrays of columns of masonry of an order
toscano, on them rest arches of half point. The main ship is separated from the presbytery for an arch toral, the presbytery possesses an altarpiece that the
virgin's Asunción, the facade represents possesses a main access that conforms it an arch of half point that leans on columns to each side, on the
arch it is a fronton that has a skylight in the eardrum, along the whole church there are thin and rectangular windows, she has you will be accustomed to and
you give birth to with disposition to two wooden waters and you tile. In the biggest altar he/she is a wooden Christ and colored plaster.
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