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Coming
up slope we find at the bottom of the park and coming in through
Blanca street which runs into San Sebastian street, turning
left we follow the street up until we find the San Sebastian Church.
This is the oldest temple in Montilla linked to the dark Middle
Ages. Its appearance is that of a gothic piece of work with no
ornaments from the beginning of the gothic period.
The Church has three naves, the
middle one has a double width, separated by thick columns of rubblework
with a capital of valutes and in the centre Romanesque tetraleaves
with counterpoint arches from the original Romanesque period.
The central altarpiece with a
post-Renaissance nuance, has a figure of the title-holder and
some others of San Francisco Solano and San Lorenzo.
At the entrance sides, to the
right, there is a statue of Santa Lucia. To the left, a baroque-style
altarpiece with canvases by Lope de Medina, a dressed statue of
Nuestra Señora de la Consolación by the Montillan
makers of religious images the Cueto Sisters. Next to this is
another sculpture with the same entitlement that, according to
tradition, turned up in 1491 in a potter kiln at the same time
as Isabel la Católica gave us a present, when she passed
Montilla. It was the cloak she was wearing to make a mantle for
the statue.
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