By juancar347 on Skatehive
There is no doubt that the modifications carried out in the 16th century were a form of destruction, resulting in an appearance that, far from beautifying it, has transformed it into that hideous hybrid of Romanesque and Baroque styles, which, nevertheless, currently houses one of the most important paleontological collections in Europe. We continue our adventure in Atienza and talk about a Romanesque church, built at the beginning of the 13th century—when Gothic architecture was beginning to gain prominence while Romanesque languished—dedicated to a very popular apostolic figure in this part of Guadalajara, as we have seen in previous posts: Saint Bartholomew. Its location, somewhat distant from the town's historic center, is compensated for by the beautiful garden that surrounds it. There, an elegant porticoed gallery stands out, offering shelter from the elements and serving as an anteroom to an austere yet elegant original portal. In the upper archivolts of this portal, we find onc