Santa Maria de Lebeña

Santa Maria de Lebeña is a small church Mozarabe Xe century, surrounded by poplars and dominated of high cliffs. It was classified national monument on March 27th, 1893.

Traditionally one allots the foundation of Holy María in year 924 to the Count de Liébana, gift Alfonso and of doña Justa.

The character of plan in squares, or rather in rectangles, is observed in an obvious way with Lebeña, In a rectangle whose sides are about equal, fit nine smaller rectangles and of slightly different size.

Three other surfaces, also rectangular, the power station broader than the others, come to be added to the one on the sides: they form the vaults. These three surfaces arise outside, and form a series of angles while being linked with the principal part of the plan, as well as side of the bedside of the central vault.

Several surfaces in lengthened half-circle rest on the central square which a series of columns delimits, of circular wood, leant with pilasters.

The labyrinthian character of this planimetry is not as marked as with Santa María de Melque, but one still finds the tendency to be used rectangular forms, and to subdivide the plans on the smaller and relatively closed surfaces.

There is not either in Lebeña a single direction, giving a feeling of escape, nor a space which is distinguished from the others by its size or its situation in the whole of construction.

The beautiful invoice of the capitals, or one finds reasons for art Visigoth, a plank with vegetable figures.

The southernmost porch by which one reaches the nave and the sacristy leant with the northern wall are of posterior time to the church. The turn-bell-tower is of invoice very recent (XXe century).

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