The Way of Saint James from Madrid - Zamarramala
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- 1010 m.
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Zamarramala is today another district of Segovia, although it still retains its essentially village appearance and atmosphere. It is renowned for its celebration of Las Águedas Festival, declared to be of Regional Tourist Interest.
It is the perfect spot from which to admire superb views of the city of Segovia.
This town is also the site of the stone cross and Chapel of San Roque and the Parish Church of Santa Águeda.
What to see?
- Segovia Sacred Music WeekMore information
Coinciding with Holy Week, the Juan de Borbón Foundation organizes the Segovia Sacred Music Week every spring, one of the oldest cycles on the Spanish music scene. The programming of each edition features...
- Date
- aprox del 20 de marzo al 15 de abril
- Jewish Cemetery of the Cuesta de los HoyosMore information
On a hill just outside the town, but close, rises Cuesta de los Hoyos, where is this Jewish cemetery, active for over two centuries, in an area called El Pinarillo. This is one of the few Jewish necropolises...
- Alcazar of SegoviaMore information
The land it now occupies must have been the site of important fortifications since antiquity given that the water pipes from the aqueduct finish in the Alcázar.On the site of successive Roman, Visigoth,...
- Tower of Hercules (Convent of Santo Domingo) Dominican Mother ConventMore information
Built in the XIII century as a fortress-house and convent of Dominican nuns from 1513, polychrome figures with the techniques of the XV and XVI centuries are carved.Gothic court, Mudejar plinths on the...
- Cathedral of SegoviaMore information
It boasts a beautiful, radiant Baroque design, with wonderful altarpieces and one of the highest towers in Spain. It is known as the Lady of the Cathedrals because of is height and the depth of its naves.
- Church of the TrinidadMore information
Simple Romanesque church containing paintings by Benson and Pontormo. It consists of a single nave with a barrel vault and on the outside, two interesting fronts and an atrium on the southern side.It contains...
- Church of the Vera CruzMore information
Templar church of 1208. it has a polygonal ground plan (12 sides), a projecting square tower and simple fronts.Structured around a central, two-storey building with an ambulatory. The lower section looks...
- Church of San EstebanMore information
13th-century church made of reddish limestone. There is an interesting six-level tower with arched windows on the top levels and the portico rests on paired columns and has sculpted capitals. The church...
- Church of San Juan de los CaballerosMore information
The church was built between the XI to XIII centuries. It is a Romanesque church of basilica floor with three naves separated by arches on cylindrical pillars; the central nave is double size of the laterals,...