Fuensalida


Iglesia Parroquial de San Juan Bautista

Rollo Justicia

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This municipality was founded as a small farmhouse around the 11th-12th century, land that was bought by the Counts of Fuensalida, which led to the rise of this town to become an important centre of population in the 16th century, which led to the creation of its artistic and cultural heritage. Fuensalida, an artisan footwear village and the current industrial engine of the town, has an urban centre that is shaped by its main square, built with the outline of a large city, and where its main monuments come from that period of splendour, the 16th century. The Gothic-Mudejar style heritage is predominant in the town centre with beautiful examples such as the church of San Juan Bautista, the palace of the Counts of Fuensalida and the Franciscan convent.

The municipality is practically flat or with slight undulations, ideal for discovering the extensive fields and streams such as the one that crosses the famous Renales meadow, which is included in the network of footpaths in the province of Toledo and allows you to discover the fauna and flora characteristic of riverside environments. Hiking routes that run through the area of this town diversifying the tourist offer to the visitor.

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Parish Church of San Juan Bautista

Built in the Gothic style, it can be dated to around the 15th and 16th centuries. The masonry is of masonry and brick reinforced with strong buttresses. A parish church with a single nave and three bays without transept that has been enclosed by ogival rib vaults. The main chapel is located in the pentagonal apse and is covered with a double-span ogival ribbed vault, separated by a pointed triumphal arch. The rest of the nave is also covered by a two-section ogival rib vault. Also at the foot of the base and to the right of the baptismal chapel is the bell tower, which only retains the first section of its original construction and is completed by three later sections, the first two in masonry and the last in brick, crowned by a very stylised slate spire, as well as a clock. Tradition has it that it was in this church that the monarch Juan II gathered the lawyers for the trial against Don Álvaro de Luna and where the sentence for his execution was passed, back in the 15th century.


Plaza Mayor

It constitutes a very large and attractive public space. All the houses belonged to the Count of Fuensalida, as can be seen in the coats of arms on the lintel of their doors. It is presided over, on its western side, by the mass of the palace of the Counts of Fuensalida, a work in its present form dating from the 17th century. On the sides, classical buildings rise up, some of them with traces of heraldic lettering. At the eastern end of the north side stands the modern town hall building, which only retains a few columns and the coats of arms that once flanked its façade. Another building is the convent of the Holy Spirit. As some historians have commented, we can say that the Plaza Mayor of Fuensalida has the dimensions and characteristics of a large city, as well as a great environmental quality.

Convent of the Franciscan Sisters of the Holy Spirit of the T.O.R.

This Renaissance building can be dated to around the 16th century, although it has undergone interventions in the 20th century. Founded thanks to the economic contribution of Hernando Alonso, priest of Fuensalida around 1534, for which a series of houses were acquired, on which the foundation was to be built. This was authorised by Pope Paul III, by means of a bull on 16 May 1538. From that early period, there remains a beautiful Mudejar work in the masonry of the wall facing the street, which has been recovered a few years ago. The convent is under the patronage of the Holy Spirit and is inhabited by Franciscan Tertiaries of the T.O.R. On the outside, the façade that faces the side of the palace of the Counts of Fuensalida has a Mudejar doorway, walled up and later recovered, with a mixtilinear arch framed by two attached columns that support the lintel, decorated with a band of angled brickwork. This is the most primitive part of the convent (14th century). On the same façade is a lintelled window, decorated with diamond points and a coat of arms depicting the Holy Spirit. The church, which is semi-public and generally well preserved, has a rectangular ground plan with a single nave. It contains the main chapel, which is enclosed by a semicircular vault and separated from the rest of the nave by a semicircular triumphal arch resting on pilasters and lunettes which, in turn, house the lighting apertures.

Virgen de la Soledad Hermitage

Built around the 16th century. It houses the patron saint of Fuensalida, the Virgen de la Soledad, who is the mayoress of the town. The church consists of a single nave of very elongated proportions and longitudinally distributed, with firstly the chapel and the sacristy, then a chapel covered by a vault with a flat half-orange vault and lunettes on both sides, and finally the elevated choir located at the foot of the nave. The main entrance is located at the foot of the chancel, under the choir, and there is another entrance facing the south wall. The main doorway has a full Tuscan order, pilastered with a pediment crowned by a tympanum with the image of the Virgin of Solitude in the tympanum. Above it rises a brick belfry with a single semicircular eye.

Rollo de justicia

Gothic in style, dating from the 16th century. The roll is raised on a five-step circular tier of ashlars, from which a Doric column rises. Approximately halfway up the shaft, the decoration is made up of four protruding heads of fantastic animals resting on corbels and supported by a collar. It is also completed with four armorial stones bearing the Ayala coat of arms.

Palace of the Counts of Fuensalida or Dukes of Frías

Transition from Gothic-Mudejar to Renaissance style. It dates from between the 15th and 16th centuries. Built by decision of the third Count of Fuensalida in the early years of the 16th century, it has structural and decorative details typical of the Renaissance, along with others from the Gothic and Mudejar periods. The façade is simple in its layout and has two storeys, with two corner towers, each with an additional storey, topped with pyramid-shaped, four-sloped roof tiles. In the centre of the façade is the large main door, located under a balcony on which the heraldic coat of arms of the Ayala lineage is carved in stone. Inside, there are still wooden ceilings in the Mudejar tradition and skirting boards made of Talavera tiles.

Hermitage of San Roque

Building constructed in the 20th century. The church has a rectangular ground plan, made of brickwork, with a rendered perimeter plinth around the perimeter. The roof is double-skirted. The hermitage was rebuilt after the Civil War and, although it is not of great architectural value, it is of great ethnographic value, as it preserves the worship and religious tradition of the locality.

Slaughterhouse

Although it is of neo-Mudéjar aesthetic affiliation, it belongs to the 20th century (1915). The building consists of four large halls, separated by a central access road. It is made of brick.

Post Office building

Built in the early years of the 20th century in neo-Mudejar style. Its façade, crowned by the coat of arms of the López de Ayala family in tile work, stands out.