Heritage · Sotorribas
Church of San Juan Bautista, Ribatajada
The church of San Juan Bautista in Ribatajada, Sotorribas, is 13th-century Romanesque with 16th- and 17th-century additions. Its original features include the semicircular apse with an arrow slit, the cornice on plain corbels, the bell gable with two openings and a pointed doorway with three archivolts and foliate capitals, already transitional Gothic.
- Municipality
- Sotorribas
- Romanesque
- Campichuelo
- Ribatajada
- Sotorribas
A church of the 13th century, partly rebuilt in the 16th and 17th centuries, retaining three Romanesque features. The semicircular apse, with an arrow slit beneath a round arch and a cornice on very plain corbels, decorated with billets, nails and hammers. The bell gable with two openings, in the west wall, with a blocked pointed doorway at its base. And the doorway, in a projecting bay with a small tiled canopy: a pointed arch, three plain archivolts and six foliate capitals, already marking the transition from Romanesque to Gothic.
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Ribatajada is a village of Sotorribas, on the Campichuelo Romanesque route. Very close by is La Asunción in Ribatajadilla.
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Where the data on this page come from
- Name
- Diputación Provincial de Cuenca source consulted, 4 October 2026
- Municipality (INE code)
- Diputación Provincial de Cuenca source consulted, 4 October 2026
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