Church of Santa María (El Toro)

The church of Santa María de El Toro (Province of Castellón, Spain) was built in 1258, according to a bull that Alexander IV addressed to the king of Aragon, being attached to the diocese of Segorbe on May 19, 1347 , after constant lawsuits.

This church is made up of a single nave with limited dimensions and is an example of the primary constructions that Elías Tormo called "Tertiary Romanesque", approaching the so-called "Reconquest".

Between the XIV and XV century it acquired ornaments and riches, reforming its old wooden ceiling in slope to two waters and endowing it with ribbed vaults.

Later it was consecrated as a hermitage of San Miguel, suffering lamentable damages in the Carlist wars of the last century and in the civil war, begun in 1936.

The primitive temple maintains its four great walls, with the buttresses of its original factory. Inside there are several niches and the main entrance is about a hundred meters away from the tower, another smaller side being seen as a secondary passage. In its vicinity there are remnants of smaller walls, as well as the existence of a cemetery and a refrigerator; hollow practiced in the field for the conservation of snow or ice.

This article incorporates material from the website of the Valencian Federation of Municipalities and Provinces, which through an authorization allowed to add content and images and publish them under GFDL.

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