Iglesia de Santo Domingo Guzmán, Torres
The church of Santo Domingo de Guzmán was built between the 16th and 17th centuries in the Renaissance style. On closer inspection, there are features that show that it also departed from pure classicism to merge with popular forms of construction.
It is notable for its location on the top of a cliff, which necessitated the construction of an enormous retaining wall with eight arches that are connected internally at the top by a vault on which the church was built. The church itself has a single nave divided into three sections with covered vaults. There is a choir at the foot of the nave. Side chapels and a presbytery are covered by a barrel vault. The entrance is a wooden door carved with cassettes and partially decorated with acanthus.
The chapel on the left, built in 1915, has a square floor plan covered by a dome on pendentives, whose round arch is decorated with triangles and vegetables and painted blue. The pendentives symbolise the four Evangelists. The chapel is entered through a door with Tuscan columns and a multilinear pediment. The green-glazed ceramic baptismal font on a stone base is in the Gothic-Mudejar style of the 15th century, decorated with pineapple arches in relief. Another baptismal font, dated 1750, has a medieval appearance due to the archaism of the snake that winds around its support. The church has an eighteenth-century bell tower and two Renaissance portals. It is located at the end of Calle Jesus Castillo Solis. .
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Location
Calle Jesus Castillo Solis.