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LETUR IN AUTUMN
The Church of Santa
María de la Asunción
and its new pipe organ
The Church of Santa María de
la Asunción, built by the Order of
Santiago at the end of the fifteenth
century, is one of Letur’s greatest
heritage treasures. In a late Gothic
style with Renaissance details, it
consists of a single nave covered
by ribbed vaults and an impressi-
ve choir crowned by a star-sha-
ped vault. Declared a National
Monument in 1982, it preserves
six Renaissance panels from the
sixteenth-century main altarpiece,
reminders of its former splendour.
A new organ has recently been
installed in the choir, replacing the
vanished Baroque instrument and
restoring to the temple its musical
and liturgical soul. Its presence
once again fills the stone vaults
with a solemn sound that unites
devotion, art and the living me-
mory of Letur.
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Church of Santa María de la AsunciónInterior of the church and view of the organ
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