{"id":7234,"date":"2021-08-20T00:04:27","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T22:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/the-church-of-santa-maria-la-mayor-in-alcazar-de-san-juan-ciudad-real\/"},"modified":"2021-11-23T15:27:59","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T14:27:59","slug":"the-church-of-santa-maria-la-mayor-in-alcazar-de-san-juan-ciudad-real","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/territories\/regional-routes\/don-quijote\/cervantes-in-alcazar-de-san-juan-a-baroque-controversy\/the-church-of-santa-maria-la-mayor-in-alcazar-de-san-juan-ciudad-real\/","title":{"rendered":"The church of Santa Mar\u00eda la Mayor in Alc\u00e1zar de San Juan (Ciudad Real)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The church of Santa Mar\u00eda la Mayor in Alc\u00e1zar de San Juan (Ciudad Real) <\/h1>\n<div class=\"testo\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In the old town of Alc\u00e1zar de San Juan stands the church of <em>Santa Mar\u00eda la Mayor<\/em>, one of the main tourist attractions of La Mancha. Construction work on it began in the thirteenth century on the ruins of an ancient mosque. When the Order of San Juan took control of Alc\u00e1zar de San Juan in 1226, the church of <em>Santa Mar\u00eda la Mayor<\/em> was converted into one of the main temples of the Order, as evinced by the window decorations with the Cross of St. John. The church has a mixture of architectural styles from different eras: the Romanesque apse, the Visigothic walls, some <em>Mud\u00e9jar<\/em> chapels, a Renaissance fa\u00e7ade and the Baroque high altar. The interior has a Latin Cross, divided into three naves, and preserves the baptismal font where a certain Miguel de Cervantes, who was not the author of the <em>Quijote<\/em>, was baptized, thus indirectly giving rise to the controversy over the birthplace of the famous writer. For this reason, outside of the church there is a statue of Miguel de Cervantes, as if to keep intact the doubts about the origins of the author. The church also displays a reddish color both outside and inside, due to the use of sandstone for its construction.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The church of Santa Mar\u00eda la Mayor in Alc\u00e1zar de San Juan (Ciudad Real) In the old town of Alc\u00e1zar de San Juan stands the church of Santa Mar\u00eda la Mayor, one of the main tourist attractions of La Mancha. Construction work on it began&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":6392,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7234","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7234"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11344,"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7234\/revisions\/11344"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}