By juancar347 on Skatehive
Also in our next destination, Beleña de Sorbe, we encounter the combative figure of a Marquis, the Marquis of Santillana, who apparently put his skills as a military strategist to use in this part of Guadalajara. Here, we also find the hereditary imprint of one of the most powerful and legendary families in Spain: the Mendozas. And also, as in the case of Tamajón, we find the intrusion of a style, the Baroque, which our greatest storyteller, Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, disliked intensely, and which also severely distorted the original Romanesque sacred geometry of a church dedicated to the Apollo of Christendom: Saint Michael. However, to our surprise, we observed that, in the case of this church of San Miguel, at least the original portal has survived, apart from some illustrated corbels, although the porticoed gallery, if it ever existed, was completely modified, also in modern times, losing a good part of its genuine original narrative. On the main portal, housed within the archivolts,