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Wise Pilgrim APPThe Iglesia de Santa María la Blanca dominates the village with the appearance of a fortress-church — which is exactly what it was. The Knights Templar built and maintained it, and the military architecture is unmistakable: thick walls, crenellations, and a massive presence that seems designed to intimidate as much as to inspire.
Inside, the Gothic interior houses a polychrome statue of the White Virgin that King Alfonso X credited with miraculous healings in his Cantigas de Santa María — the 13th-century collection of songs to the Virgin that is one of the great works of medieval Iberian literature. The double tomb of the Infante Don Felipe and his wife Doña Leonor, carved in stone, is among the finest Gothic funerary sculpture in Spain.
A couple of bars and an albergue serve the village. The church is sometimes locked — ask at the bar about visiting.
