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Huete Episcopal Palace

Huete Episcopal Palace, built in three phases, the first pa, which is the shield of Bishop Solano, was designed by Antonio Maria Carabella in the late eighteenth century, the second, held in time of Bishop Palafox, is the work of Matthew Lopez, in the early nineteenth century. The central part of the building remained unfinished.

Florencio Museum Source

International Contemporary Art Collection with works by Villatoro, Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, Bores, Camille Corot, Peter Matheu, Vicet Ochoa, etc., gathered by the patron and founder of the Museum, whose collection has been donated to Huete and serves as a complement to all the artistic periods the city holds. The museum regularly holds exhibitions that enliven the cultural life of the city and make a reference Huete of Contemporary Art.

Sacred Art Museum

This museum highlights the Cruz de San Nicolas de Almazan, with beautiful reliefs Francisco Becerril and his son Christopher, and the Cross of Santa Maria de Atienza, conducted in 1618 by silversmith Miguel Martinez de Arta, possibly crosses one of the best seventeenth-century Castilian and paraded in a procession during the festival of San Juan Evangelista around May 6. It is also admirable ivory Christ magnificent seventeenth century and the collection of ornaments and vestments, which highlights the mantle called Captives, filipino style embroidery in the eighteenth century to the Virgen de las Mercedes.

Ethnographic Museum

Gather a collection of related tools that are traditional handicrafts alcarria in Cuenca. Highlights include the collection of agricultural tools and livestock.

Clock Tower

Since medieval times, the council ordered a watch to govern and organize the life of the citizens of Huete. Time, as measured, was always held in the service of being the council that controlled it. It was originally located at the top of the slope of the market, the strong cube wall. In the modern age is made the construction of the tower at the current location. The designs of the tower, made in 1795 are attributed to the architect Fernando Lopez and Francisco de Toledo. The latter was responsible for the execution of the works, which, after several stoppages due to lack of resources, were completed at 1805. Its architecture brings together with great success late Baroque elements with others of incipient neoclassicism. Of particular beauty are the last two bodies and the original auction in flashlight, used to house the bell gothic antique clock, which for centuries have governed the lives of optenses. The door of Almazan, named adjoin the parish of St. Nicholas of Almazan, was the largest in the city walls. Ancient stories tell of a cover adorned with the arms of the Catholic Monarchs and the shield of the city, all remodeled to build the present tower.

Church of Our Lady of Atienza

It is one of the ten parishes during the medieval and the modern age had Huete being the oldest asentanda possibly his factory in an old mosque. The gothic artistic style is a fledgling, a rare example in the province of Cuenca. The polygonal apse, with strong buttresses on the outside is the thirteenth century. It has some mullioned windows with column alancetadas or mullion in each of the segments of the pentagon of the apse, it joins with the main ship in the sixteenth century with a triumphal arch with classical elements. Inside the walls are delimited by pilasters with capitals richly decorated with human faces, plant elements and heraldic elements. Under the apse we find a crypt that was used as a family vault by Sandoval, in which, according to tradition was kept a candle that was lit during the centuries of Muslim domination of the Blessed Sacrament. In 1784 the parish was suppressed by moving your belongings and devotions practiced therein to the Parish of St. Nicholas of Medina. Among them moved the Brotherhood of St. John the Evangelist, patron of the district gets its name from this church and is one of the most revered today with important festivals in the month of May. In 1790 the church was demolished, leaving only the apse remains as a hermitage. By Royal Decree in 1982 declared monument.

Church of Santo Domingo

The convent was founded in the late fourteenth century nuns from the nearby hamlet of Amasatrigo thanks to donations from Catherine of Lancaster, Queen of Castile and Lady of Huete. The continued growth of its assets prompted the monastery became one of the most important that the Order had in Castile. The present church was designed in 1620 by the Carmelite Friar Alberto de la Madre de Dios, architect of the Kings Philip III and Margaret of Austria and Duke of Lerma. Work began in 1621 under the direction of Antonio de Mazas and were later continued by Pedro del Valle, ending around 1642. Albert, designed an austere temple, Tuscan, and golden proportions, with a Latin cross, dome over the transept and five chapels on each side. Outside, the sleek facade, which, despite its extreme severity, brown work actually gets a beautifully balanced, with a central body of the giant order, topped with a large gable, and two sides, crowned by beautiful cattails.

Huete Castle

Huete Castle, also known Wabda citadel and castle of Luna, is a castle, medieval, northwest of the city Spanish of Huete and west of the district Atienza of the town. It occupies what was an important enclave geostrategic from which dominates a large area to Altomira saw the west from the valley of the River Mayor until the alcarria of Sacedón north, the entrance to the Cuenca mountains to the east and the first hills of the Manchuela south.

Ermita de San Sebastian and the poplar

This park of old was known as the Poplar Run, which was installed in the gardens near the city's first news documentary that we have dates from 1689. According to several authors this garden came to have four or five blocks and two representative sources constructed by the council, one in the center and another at the entrance. In 1763 the municipal authority commands place the granite cross "Miguel de la Ceza" in the final roundabout, cross that was previously located in a place called Cross of the waiters. The structure of eighteenth-century park rides is typically wide with vegetation that produces an almost perpetual shade, connected by small paths or streets.

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