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Church of Santa Leocadia
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The church dedicated to the patron saint of Toledo is located, according to tradition, at his birthplace. His seniority dates back to eleventh century, but remnants of its oldest factory dating from the thirteenth century. The only Mudejar elements are preserved tower, part of the cover and the apse. One apse side follows the much repeated in Toledo model with decorative arches.
The other two disappeared between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, giving way to the current chapels, like the brick pillars were replaced by stone columns and arches horseshoe other half point.
A change of the late eighteenth century, promoted by Queen Maria Luisa de Parma, wife of Charles IV, great devout of the holy, we must look today. According to other traditions another lady, the mother of San Ildefonso archbishop himself, was the devout beaterio existed before in this place, back in the mid-seventh century. |
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