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Capilla Mayor - Retablo  
   

Capilla Mayor - Retablo

The altarpiece is made up of fifty-three wooden panels, distributed in eleven rows and five bodies columns, ordered from bottom to top and from left to right. The Last Judgment crowns the ensemble in the quarter sphere. Painted by Daniel, Samson and Nicolás Delli in the 15th century. "The principal apse contains a huge fresco of the Last Judgment, below which, in Gothic frames, are 55 pictures on wood of scenes from the lives of Christ and the Virgin. These were all painted by Nicolas Florentine in 1445 et seq.. except the middle panels of the two lower rows, which are later additions".--Baedeker 1913. DSC_0203
Salamanca

October 17th 2022
An all-day coach trip to Salamanca was the agenda for today. From Barca d'Alba we crossed the Águeda river, a Douro tributary, to enter Spain. The mountains of Portugal extended briefly into Spain, but shortly thereafter we were crossing the high plateau of central Spain, known as the Meseta, This region is part of Castille and Léon. The landscape and vegetation here, like the plateau in La Manc ... read more
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Spanish Flag Spain's powerful world empire of the 16th and 17th centuries ultimately yielded command of the seas to England. Subsequent failure to embrace the mercantile and industrial revolutions caused the country to fall behind Britain, France, and Germany in ... ... read more
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