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Church of St James (Arrabal de Marzuela)

Church of St James (Arrabal de Marzuela)

Exponent of the Mudejar style, it stands out for its Moorish limes and rich polychromy. It is an ideal place to lose yourself in narrow streets with historic...
The church was built in the 16th century in the old suburb of Marzuela, built in 1505 on the site of an old mosque and is the best example of Mudejar architecture in Baza, we invite you to wander through the narrow streets of this old suburb ... there is no hurry here, enjoy it, it has three naves separated by semicircular arches on pillars, a prominent chancel and a high choir at the foot. Its central nave is covered with a very interesting framework of moamares limes with five paired braces on footings. In its chancel, the octagonal frame of its main chapel, with a ten-sided tie, is particularly noteworthy. It has a decorated crenellation with carved angels and a very rich polychromy of candelabra, angels, anthropomorphic and geometric elements, scallops, crosses of Santiago, etc. It rests on venerated pendentives, decorated with tenants and masks. In its side naves there are several chapels built in different styles throughout the 16th and 17th centuries, which gives the church a great artistic and stylistic diversity, ranging from some of them covered by ribbed vaults and masonry to the most recent ones with different architectural solutions typical of the Baroque style, such as oval domes with coffered, star-shaped or hemispherical domes, one of them topped with a lantern.Barrio de Santiago This corresponds to the Arab suburb of Marzuela, which arose in the 12th-13th century, during the Almohad period. It was a neighbourhood outside the city walls and was separated from it by the Barranco de Los Alamillos ravine. It preserves the Muslim urban layout with some very interesting alleyways and parapets.