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Built in the lower part of the village, it is a building with a polygonal plan, in the traditional construction of the temples of this invocation, with a dome, housing the images of the Virgin and St. John. Work from the 19th century, reflects the popular piety of the "Passos" that expanded this century, throughout the Alentejo. The reference of these patrimonial values of religious architecture makes it possible to make the path to the objective that moves us, in its global sense and singularity, more accessible, and if they do not lose themselves in the indistinct sum, so often, of forgetfulness and greatness. This summary "exhibition" of religious architecture emphasizes the truth that religious buildings "honor" space and, on the whole, reinforce the "living scene" of this Earth. On the other hand, they mark, in this historical and current community, a whole process of "spontaneous" and conscious development, of known artistic, religious value, "monumental" ensemble that affirms the harmony of the variety, articulating military, civil and religious buildings, in a unique natural environment.
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Extremadura (Estremaura in Extremadura and the fala). It is a Spanish autonomous community located in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula. It is composed of the two largest provinces in Spain: Cáceres yBadajoz. Extremadura bounded on the north by the provinces of Salamanca, Ávila (Castilla y León), south conHuelva, Sevilla and Cordoba (Andalusia), on the east, with Toledo and Ciudad Real (Castilla-La Mancha) and west conPortugal. Its capital is Mérida (Augusta Emerita old), the city recognized by the Statute of Autonomy as the seat of the Government of Extremadura.