Church of Nuestra Señora de la Purificación (Gazólaz)
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The Church of Nuestra Señora de la Purificación of Gazólaz, located in the village of Gazólaz, municipality of Cizur (Comunidad Foral de Navarra, Spain) is a romanesque church built at the start of the 13th century. In June 1931, it was declared Bien de Interés Cultural.
The church was built by the architects of the Order of San Juan.[1] Historians claim that Pedro Ximénez who was the bishop of Pamplona from 1242 to 1266 ordered its construction.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Biurrun y Sotil, Tomás. (1936). El arte románico en Navarra : o Las obras ordenes monacales, sistemas constructivos y monumentos Cluniacenses, Sanjuanistas, Agustinianos, Cistercienses y Templarios. Aramburu. p. 425. OCLC 911949118.
- ^ "GAZOLAZ, Pedro Ximénez de - Auñamendi Eusko Entziklopedia". aunamendi.eusko-ikaskuntza.eus (in Basque). Retrieved 2020-09-23.
- The information in this article is based on that in its Spanish equivalent.
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