San Juan de Rabanera
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The San Juan de Rabanera is a Romanesque-style,
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church located in
Soria Soria () is a municipality and a Spanish city, located on the Douro river in the east of the autonomous community of Castile and León and capital of the province of Soria. Its population is 38,881 ( INE, 2017), 43.7% of the provincial populati ...
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. It was declared ''
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'' in 1929. Construction began in the 12th century, but the church has been refurbished since, and had the addition of chapels. The highly sculpted main portal derives from the razed church of San Nicolás, moved here in 1908. The apse has flat striated pillars, one of which forms the axis of symmetry, separating two windows with semi-circular arches as opposed to the most common single one. San Juan de Rabanera-Soria - P7234545.jpg, Apse San Juan de Rabanera-Soria - P7234548.jpg, Decorated blind windows San Juan de Rabanera-Soria - P7234654.jpg, Main portal The interior has gothic elements, but the rounded apse has Romanesque window moldings.La Frontera del Duero
entry on church.


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