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La Ermita de Santa María de la Antigua

The hermitage of Santa María de la Antigua is located between the site of the Prison and Cemetery Carabanchel Carabanchel Low. Was raised to the XIII century to serve the Santa Maria Magdalena and currently serves as the cemetery chapel.


Besides being the oldest chapel in Madrid, is the only full-Mudejar Romanesque chapel of the Community of Madrid and only example of Mudejar brick architecture in the capital, along with San Nicolas de los Servitas and San Pedro el Viejo. When it was built, served as a parish of the village but it was in Carabanchel XV century when it became a shrine.

According to tradition, San Isidro, patron of Madrid, came to pray quite often to this place. Before the construction of the chapel was a small wooden temple post Muslim who is quoted by the codex of John Deacon in the thirteenth century. It is in this place where the miracle happens Wolf: He was the saint praying inside the temple when he was told some children that a wolf was prowling the place with the intention of killing his donkey. San Isidro answers them: "Go in peace, God's will be done" and continued praying. After leaving the temple, he found the grazing donkey and the wolf dead. He returned again a prayer to thank God, "according to his mercy he saves men and donkeys."


Inside the chapel, under the stairs leading to the choir, he found a pool from which tradition tells that San Isidro Labrador watered her there plowing oxen. San Isidro died in 1172, so presumably a chapel was built later respecting the existence of the well.


Santa Maria de la Antigua was declared Artistic Monument of provincial interest in 1981 and restored in 1998 by the Ministry of Culture of the Community of Madrid. It is attached chapel small size and low relief, whose main architectural elements are:

The plan is rectangular and its head has a semicircular apse masonry attached to the ship by two straight and facing east, characteristic of Romanesque architecture and a chancel. The window of the apse is shaped arched brick.





The brick façade with lobed arch framed by a rectangular frame, so characteristic of Moorish art.

The tower is rectangular and brick masonry made just in a bell tower.


The interior retains the original wood ceiling, medieval, tempera paintings of that time with castles, heraldic images, geometric shapes, paintings that have the miracles of San Isirdro ....

The altarpiece is Baroque delsiglo XVI and in the central niche is a copy of the medieval image of Our Lady of Antigua who disappeared in 1936.


As final curiosity, to say that around this chapel were found many archaeological remains from different periods: Carpetani, Romans ....

References:
http://juancato.com/madrid/antigua.htm
http://www.nova.es/ ~ jlb/mad_e253.htm
http://pasionpormadrid.blogspot.com
Antiquaria Gallery . Contemporary art, antiques and collectibles. Year XIV. 1996. n º 136

Saturday, February 20, 2010

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The Shrine of Our Lady of Valverde

At mile 12 of the Carretera de Colmenar Viejo, which was formerly known as road to France, is the Shrine of Our Lady of Valverde, an ensemble that was declared a historic monument art in 1977.

is located in the district of Fuencarral-El Pardo and occupies an area exceeding 30,000 square meters. It is a baroque ensemble whose author is unknown, consists of a church sanctuary, the Chapel of Our Lady of The Guide, the ancient monastery of Dominican friars and the Palace of the Marquis de Murillo. The entrance to the grounds of the eighteenth-century chapel has a cover 5 arc.

Entrance to the grounds

Its origin dates back to 1242 when it lifted the whole of the land on which there had been an earlier chapel which was venerated as the Virgin of Valverde. Reached its peak with the House of Austria, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, thanks to the additions made by the Marquis of Murillo. Ventura Rodriguez is known that restoration work performed in the Finnish resort to the eighteenth century.

Hermitage Our Lady of the guide and gateway

in 2004 restored the sanctuary which was ruinous state, respecting the original structure, while providing the amenities building and new technologies.
Church of Our Lady of Valverde and Monastery

The Monastery is now part of Centre Youth Hall Montecarmelo and Interpretation of Nature, dedicated to the Cuenca Alta del Manzanares and the Monte del Pardo.

Interior Youth Center and Hall of interpretation of nature
The palatial residence of the Marquis de Murillo is dedicated to the management, administration and archiving of the Center .
old palace of the Marquis de Murillo

The church is small and continues to provide religious service. Is a single ship and has side chapels and a cruise. The Capilla de la Virgen del Rosario, the eighteenth century, with an altar to the Virgin and another the Christ of the Good Death. Currently, the sanctuary of the Church of Valverde is provisional headquarters of the parish of Santa María la Blanca de Montecarmelo.

Interior Church of Our Lady of Valverde

Interior Our Lady of the Rosary Chapel
The cult of the Virgin of Valverde was back to the very origins of the ancient people, now district, Fuencarral. The tradition says the Virgin Mary and was worshiped before Muslim invasion of 711, and although no one knows the exact spot where he was the former chapel, thought he was on the same grounds. They say that after the invasion of Muslims, the image was hidden in a well, and were some shepherds found the image in the thirteenth century when the territory was Cristina, standing in a chapel there.

The celebration of the Virgin Mary Our Lady of Valverde is held every spring and popular pilgrimages are made at the entrance of the enclosure. Tradition emphasizes the blessing and sharing of bread and cheese. "

North Face Shrine of Our Lady of Valverde



Sources:
www.munimadrid.es
www.fiestafuencarral.com

Saturday, February 13, 2010

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The Colonia de La Prensa

The Colony Press is a collection of modernist houses raised in early twentieth century as a second holiday home of wealthy families in Carabanchel people. And, before the annexation in 1948 the city of Madrid, Carabanchel was considered a rest area and summer.


The colony was a project architect Mario Lopez Felipe Blanco and the foundation stone of the buildings put Alfonso XIII in 1913. Came to house 42 single family hotels modernist garden and for the journalists. As a curiosity, was the first cooperative housing held in Madrid.

A colony is accessed by the numbers 61 and 63 Eugenie Street. This is a monumental entrance and decorative Art Nouveau style, in which two square towers twins are joined by a canopy. Modernist elements stand out as the posters and forged railings and windows. This building served as a porter, telephone booths and tram halt.

remain standing still some of these modernist houses in the Period Street, and Future Century Diario La Nacion that were national newspapers of those years. Some of these houses are badly damaged. Many others have gone into brick buildings typical of the working class districts of Madrid.












Sources:
"Curiosities of Madrid" by José del Corral , Ediciones El País Aguilar. 1992.
Madrid Photo to Photo Blog:
http://madridfotoafoto.blogspot.com/2009/02/la-colonia-de-la-prensa.html
Idade Urban Blog: http:// urbancidades.wordpress.com/2009/06/16/colonia-de-la-prensa-carabanchel-madrid / Web
Madrid Modernist:
http://alejandromena.info/madridmodernista/colprensa.html