Church Santa María de Adina
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Temple built sobre another romanesque from the year 1.170 of which the walls and the eaves are preserved. The chapel is from the 16th century and has a ribbed vault.

Primarily consagrada a la diosa pagana Minerva, “Atinna” o “Ataecina”, was later Christianized, renamed Santa María la Digna, until reaching the current place name of Adina.

The building has several prow corbels in the southern part, others decorated with saw teeth, corbels with baquetones in two superimposed rows and animal heads, very deteriorated.

The chapel is from the XNUMXth century, has a ribbed vault and until recently kept a canopy lintel used as an ossuary, currently placed as the front of the altar. In the canopy, the Virgin appears crowned with the Child in her arms between two ogee arches, with pendants, externally adorned with leaves. grandes and upper rosette in two orders, which end in flowery cresting like the generality of the lintels. Externally, on the front it shows a stone carving of the Virgin Mary sobre arched door, above a rose window and a cross on the hastal. On the right side stands a small bell tower adorned with pinnacles, the building being surrounded by a stone-fenced cemetery.

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