Iglesia Asunción - Castalla, Alicante, España - Doorways of the World on Waymarking.com

Puerta de madera de doble hoja, contrachapada con planchas de hierro, cosida con clavos y grandes remaches, dispone de dos aperturas más pequeñas para facilitar su uso.

"Se terminó de construir en el año 1.572, por dos hermanos canteros de la propia Castalla. La iglesia pertenece al estilo gótico catalán; de auténtica y enorme bóveda central, capillas situadas entre los contrafuertes y ábside poligonal. La nave de la bóveda central es ojival y cuatripartita mientras que la del ábside es estrellada. Entre las capillas laterales destaca la Capilla de la Virgen, de estilo renacentista. Las fachadas principal y lateral son también de estilo renacentista así como el cuadrado campanario".

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Double-leaf wooden door, plywood with iron plates, sewn with nails and large rivets, it has two smaller openings to facilitate its use.

"It was completed in the year 1572, by two stonemasons brothers from Castalla itself. The church belongs to the Catalan Gothic style; with an authentic and enormous central vault, chapels located between the buttresses and a polygonal apse. The nave of the central vault is ogival and quadripartite while that of the apse is star-shaped. Among the side chapels, the Chapel of the Virgin stands out, in Renaissance style. The main and lateral facades are also in Renaissance style, as is the square bell tower".

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Type of material of the door: Wood Functional door?: Yes Location of this door/way: On private property Is it accessable only by paid admission": Free but in a restricted area Style: Gothic Address or physical location: Plaza de la Iglesia, 5, 03420 Castalla, Alicante

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Date Logged Log User Rating   09/28/2023 GURUGU visited it