Church of Nuestra Señora de la Asunción
Tarancón, ES
The church of Nuestra Señora de la Asunción was built in the 16th century in the Herrerian style on the site of a church built a century earlier. In the 18th century, a choir and tower were added. During the 19th and 20th centuries the church suffered three calamities : in 1891, a main arch collapsed, which made it necessary to dismantle the Gothic ribbed vault; in 1936, shortly after the outbreak of the Civil War, the parish archives, the liturgical trousseau and some of the furniture were burnt, and the space was used by the Republican army; finally, in 1949, the explosion of a nearby military powder magazine seriously damaged the fabric of the church, which had to be restored.