Church of Santa María de Calatayud

The church of San Andrés is a Catholic parish temple in Calatayud (province of Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain). It is one of the few Mudejar churches with three naves, which are separated by pointed arches slightly in a horseshoe shape.Originally it was a Gothic-Mudejar church from the 14th and 15th centuries with three naves, the central one the largest, and three sections each, covered with a ribbed vault and topped by a straight header. In the 16th century the nave was extended by one section, the straight apse was replaced by a polygonal apse, the transept was renovated and the tower that stands at its southwestern corner was built.

The church was built after the battle of Cutanda (1120), when, at the entrance of King Alfonso I the Battler to Calatayud, a contingent of Franks from Bigorra under the command of the Count of Alperche, who had supported the king in the Reconquest.

Located next to the old Puerta de Somajas, currently called Puerta de Zaragoza, the current Royal Basilica-Collegiate Church of the Holy Sepulcher was completed in 1613 by the architect Gaspar de Villaverde, who erected a proto-baroque temple of Herrerian tradition on the previous one of Mudejar style, of the that some remains are still preserved.