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The only religious building of essentially baroque style in Navarre.
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This church belongs to the convent of nuns of the Congregation of Mary dedicated to teaching. It was built between 1732 and 1742, being the only religious building of essentially baroque style in Navarre. Behind its brick and ashlar façade, the interior is structurally enhanced with a central octagonal floor plan. The brothers Del Rio built the spectacular baroque altarpiece of triple concavity and profuse decoration dedicated to the Immaculate Conception.
The church belongs to the Companions of Mary. Religious order dedicated to teaching. Its conventual foundation dates from 1683, although the church was built from 1732 and blessed in 1742, being its master builder Juan Marzal.
It is the only essentially baroque building in Navarre, standing out as one of the best architectural ensembles of the 18th century in the Navarre’s area of the Ribera.
Its floor plan is novel with respect to traditional conventual baroque architecture. The space is articulated around an octagonal central plan, covered by a dome with lantern, surrounded on three of its fronts by an ambulatory interrupted by two low choirs. Annexed to the ambulatory is a rectangular body on which a high choir is mounted. In this way, a combined floor plan is created in which centrality and longitudinality share spatial importance in this baroque building, where the structural aspect is more important, approaching Italianate models, and not so much the ornamental aspect, which was more common in the area. With this spatial arrangement, a solution is provided for all the needs of the religious community (cloister, apostolate and teaching).
The brick and ashlar façade is organized in two sections and a third one crowned by a triangular pediment linked to the rest by two concave fins. The monumental façade is modulated by the following elements: pilasters, semicircular doorway, round windows with triangular pediments and a central niche with a stone image of the Virgin Mary.
The interior elevations of the church have arcades on pillars, arranged as parallel and oblique screens, which determine the appearance of one set after another, as if they were the backstage of a stage, achieving with them a highly scenographic perspective, further enhanced by the light that filters through the lantern and the oculi.
The brothers Del Rio built the spectacular baroque main altarpiece of triple concavity and profuse decoration dedicated to the Immaculate Conception. Its decoration is based on rockeries, stipites and garlands with small and curly foliage that already announces the rococo.
The church belongs to the Companions of Mary. Religious order dedicated to teaching. Its conventual foundation dates from 1683, although the church was built from 1732 and blessed in 1742, being its master builder Juan Marzal.
It is the only essentially baroque building in Navarre, standing out as one of the best architectural ensembles of the 18th century in the Navarre’s area of the Ribera.
Its floor plan is novel with respect to traditional conventual baroque architecture. The space is articulated around an octagonal central plan, covered by a dome with lantern, surrounded on three of its fronts by an ambulatory interrupted by two low choirs. Annexed to the ambulatory is a rectangular body on which a high choir is mounted. In this way, a combined floor plan is created in which centrality and longitudinality share spatial importance in this baroque building, where the structural aspect is more important, approaching Italianate models, and not so much the ornamental aspect, which was more common in the area. With this spatial arrangement, a solution is provided for all the needs of the religious community (cloister, apostolate and teaching).
The brick and ashlar façade is organized in two sections and a third one crowned by a triangular pediment linked to the rest by two concave fins. The monumental façade is modulated by the following elements: pilasters, semicircular doorway, round windows with triangular pediments and a central niche with a stone image of the Virgin Mary.
The interior elevations of the church have arcades on pillars, arranged as parallel and oblique screens, which determine the appearance of one set after another, as if they were the backstage of a stage, achieving with them a highly scenographic perspective, further enhanced by the light that filters through the lantern and the oculi.
The brothers Del Rio built the spectacular baroque main altarpiece of triple concavity and profuse decoration dedicated to the Immaculate Conception. Its decoration is based on rockeries, stipites and garlands with small and curly foliage that already announces the rococo.
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